Exhibition details
Schmucker Art Gallery presents an exhibition of works of art by prominent contemporary artist and MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award recipient Kara Walker. Her suite of lithographs Harper’s Pictorial History (Annotated) on loan from the Middlebury College Museum of Art takes Civil War-era imagery as its subject to question issues of identity, history, sexuality and race, particularly in relation to stereotypes and historical perceptions of African Americans.
The exhibition and related programming will be held in conjunction with the Central Pennsylvania Consortium Africana Studies Conference. The exhibition is supported in part by the Gettysburg College Sesquicentennial Committee for the Commemoration of the American Civil War and EPACC.
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image, Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta. (detail) Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005 Offset Lithography/Silkscreen, Paper size 39 x 53 inches, Edition of 35
January 25 - March 8, 2013
Location
Main Gallery
Reception
Lecture