Description: Further DetailsTitle: Consuming StoriesCondition: NewEAN: 9780520288928ISBN: 9780520288928Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/15/2016Item Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmItem Width: 20mmAuthor: Rebecca PeabodyLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American RaceISBN-10: 0520288920Description: In Consuming Stories, Rebecca Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. Focusing on a few key pieces that range from a wall-size installation to a reworked photocopy in an artist's book and from a theater curtain to a monumental sculpture, Peabody explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker's production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire. Consuming Stories considers Walker's sustained visual engagement with literary genres such as the romance novel, the neo-slave narrative, and the fairy tale and with internationally known stories including Roots, Beloved, and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Walker's interruption of these familiar works , along with her generative use of the familiar in unexpected and destabilizing ways, reveals the extent to which genre-based narrative conventions depend on specific representations of race, especially when aligned with power and desire.Breaking these implicit rules makes them visible-and, in turn, highlights viewers' reliance on them for narrative legibility. As this study reveals, Walker's engagement with narrative continues beyond her early silhouette work as she moves into media such as film, video, and sculpture. Peabody also shows how Walker uses her tools and strategies to unsettle cultural histories abroad when she works outside the United States. These stories, Peabody reminds us, not only change the way people remember history but also shape the entertainment industry. Ultimately, Consuming Stories shifts the critical conversation away from the visual legacy of historical racism toward the present-day role of the entertainment industry-and its consumers-in processes of racialization.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Consuming Stories
Title: Consuming Stories
EAN: 9780520288928
ISBN: 9780520288928
Release Date: 11/15/2016
Release Year: 2016
Subtitle: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race
ISBN-10: 0520288920
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Consuming Stories : Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Sculpture & Installation, American / African American, History / Contemporary (1945-), General, Subjects & Themes / General, African American
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, History
Item Weight: 26.4 Oz
Author: Rebecca Peabody
Item Length: 10.4 in
Item Width: 7.3 in
Format: Hardcover
