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Contemporary Artist, Kara Walker: Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary Yet We Pressed On)
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Kara Walker’s work titled Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary Yet We Pressed On) is dated in the year, 2000. It focuses on symbols and images of the historical era preceding the American Civil War. The subject is of slavery and southern plantation owners, defined also as the antebellum South. Her iconographies represent a collective of memories where both white and black racial groups are implicated as the source of racial discomfort. Walker has taken the proper traditional 18th and More