Kara Walker, Camptown Ladies, 1998
This was my favorite piece. Walker uses the racist ante-bellum south as her muse to depict stereotypes about blacks and slavery. The above piece finds inspiration in an old folk song from the mid-19th century, about workers racing horses for entertainment in make-shift towns during railroad construction. In Walker’s work though, rather than racing a horse, the jockey is riding a black woman while dangling a carrot in front of her face. At the end of the piece, the carrot ends up in the woman’s derriere.
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huge piece! Im both glad and angry that I caught...30 Americans on its last day…
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