Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker

"It is not easy to write a scholarly work on a living artist whose talent for generating controversy at times obscures her formidable creative talent. However, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw has done it, with remarkable intelligence and style. She brilliantly contextualizes Kara Walker's work in terms of art history and African American history in a book that will be of tremendous value to scholars across many disciplines."-Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard UniversityGwendolyn DuBois DuBois Shaw is the author of 'Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker', published 2004 under ISBN 9780822333616 and ISBN 0822333619.