Kara Walker: Figa - by Karen Marta (Hardcover)

Name: Kara Walker: Figa - by Karen Marta (Hardcover)
Brand: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art
SKU: 1007909244
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Critical insight into the gesturing hand piece from Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinxKara Walker's (born 1969) Figa, a sculpture monumental in both size and symbol, was installed at the DESTE Foundation's Hydra Slaughterhouse in 2017.
Author(s): Karen Marta
88 Pages
Art, Individual Artists

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About the Book

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Figa at the DESTE Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra, Greece, June 20-September 30, 2017.

Book Synopsis

Critical insight into the gesturing hand piece from Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinx

Kara Walker's (born 1969) Figa, a sculpture monumental in both size and symbol, was installed at the DESTE Foundation's Hydra Slaughterhouse in 2017. Once a part of Walker's colossal 2014 installation A Subtlety at the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, Figa is made up of the hand piece from the anamorphic sphinx that gestures a "fig sign," at once both a symbol of fertility and a "fuck you." In making a return to the site of the Sugar Factory work and the work's progeny in Hydra, this book offers critical insight on A Subtlety and Figa. Through extensive photographic documentation of the installation of the hand sculpture in Hydra by Ari Marcopoulos and seven fables written by Walker illustrating the power of folklore, mythology and black identity across the history of the United States, Figa in book form captures a blockbuster exhibition in two parts.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.7 Inches (H) x 6.6 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)

Weight: .95 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 88

Genre: Art

Sub-Genre: Individual Artists

Publisher: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art

Theme: Monographs

Format: Hardcover

Author: Karen Marta

Language: English

Street Date: May 21, 2019

TCIN: 1007909244

UPC: 9786185039325

Item Number (DPCI): 247-26-0173

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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