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Decolonial Theory in the work of Kara Walker and Jenette Ehlers

The video work Black Magic at the White House by Jennette Ehlers that was featured in the 4th MOOC immediately made me think of the work of Kara Walker.  In addition to the similarity in the forms of the figures in Ehlers’ video and the silhouettes of Walker, both share the decolonial theory – bringing …

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Guerrilla Girls

Anonymous women who use the pseudonyms of dead women artists to challenge hegemony in the art world. The group began in 1984 as a response to The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit An International Survery of Painting and Sculpture where 100% of the artists exhibited were white and less than 8% were women.
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