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The figure in Kara Walker’s African/American, 1998, appears in silhouette. Purposely using this nineteenth-century craft that literally reduces people to black and white, Walker provides a visual equivalent to stereotypes. Like an oversimplified perception, this linoleum cut-out speaks loudly while giving very little information. Although pointed at a specific issue, Walker creates a form, like the artists collected here, for presenting the figure so that it can be seen anew, and as a result, eventually freed from the constrictions of earlier representation.
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