Cincinnati Art Museum: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War

By Kristina, posted on March 19th, 2010.

[ February 20, 2010 to May 2, 2010. ] Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

“I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would either giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful.”   -Kara Walker

[caption id="attachment_1995" align="aligncenter" width="137" caption="Courtesy of the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Cincinnati Art [...]