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| | The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago: Kara Walker, |
 | | Using stylized fl cut-out silhouettes, a popular artform of the 19th century, Walker's work functions anachronistically. |
 | | Her "Inner Plantation" as she has dubbed it, is filled with stock racist stereotypes -- mammies, pickanniny's, crackers, Uncle Remuses, Southern belles, Confederate Soldiers, and slave mistresses. |
 | | Walker combines the pyscho-sexual pleasure/pain, desire/disgust dynamic associated with sado-masochism with the sociopolitical realities of slavery. |
| www.renaissancesociety.org /site/Exhibitions/Intro.51.0.0.0.0.html (215 words) |
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