A subtlety

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in days past, a subtlety was an edible sugar sculpture eaten at wealthy banquets, which highlighted the affluence of the dinner host who could afford it. Kara Walker's massive. sugar-coated sphinx-like woman explores the opposite side of the sweet substance: our history and contemporary relationship to slavery and the forced-labour that has been used to produce it. Built in Brooklyn's Domino Sugar factory, she explores the trading and overworking of slaves in the cane fields with her Marvelous Sugar baby sculpture. Wander around the awesome exhibition on Street View, now.

Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker lives in New York City and has taught extensively at Columbia University. She is serving a five-year term as Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School....

A subtlety

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m04zfgb

in days past, a subtlety was an edible sugar sculpture eaten at wealthy banquets, which highlighted the affluence of the dinner host who could afford it. Kara Walker's massive. sugar-coated sphinx-like woman explores the opposite side of the sweet substance: our history and contemporary relationship to slavery and the forced-labour that has been used to produce it. Built in Brooklyn's Domino Sugar factory, she explores the trading and overworking of slaves in the cane fields with her Marvelous Sugar baby sculpture. Wander around the awesome exhibition on Street View, now.

Kara Elizabeth Walker is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, and film-maker who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker lives in New York City and has taught extensively at Columbia University. She is serving a five-year term as Tepper Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018.