ニューヨーク近代美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク近代美術館Instagram)「In her work, #KaraWalker often combines humor and horror to depict provocative, confrontational tableaux set in the Civil War–era South, prompting difficult and uncomfortable questions about how race, gender, power, and the construction of history inform American society. Stone Mountain, not far from Walker’s childhood home outside Atlanta, Georgia, is the site of the world’s largest bas-relief, a tribute to three Confederate leaders in the American Civil War and their favorite horses. The town was also the site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1915. Walker’s monumental triptych, "40 Acres of Mules," approximates the oval of Stone Mountain’s bas-relief, and includes generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Confederate president Jefferson Davis tangled among a riot of horses, Black characters, and hooded Klansmen. The work's title refers to the rarely delivered reparations promised to emancipated American slaves: “forty acres and a mule,” or land and an animal to work it. The confluence of this place and this animal also suggests the mule-led funeral procession of Martin Luther King, Jr., who proclaimed in his landmark 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.” On #MoMAMagazine, writer and scholar Laura Brodie explores Confederate monuments, and how Walker undoes these long-revered symbols of the South in her charcoal triptych. Read more at the link in our bio, and see the work in the #MoMACollection gallery Worlds to Come. — Kara Walker. "40 Acres of Mules" (details). 2015. Charcoal on three sheets of paper. © 2021 Kara Walker」2月9日 3時49分