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Kara Walker

Above: detail from Look Away! Look Away! Look Away!, 1995

Video will return here when scrolled back into view

Below: installation of Look Away!

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College

10 x 60' in.

From BOMB, Spring 1996, Issue 55, page 46.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

Kara Walker

Above: detail from Look Away! Look Away! Look Away!, 1995

Below: installation of Look Away!

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College

10 x 60' in.

From BOMB, Spring 1996, Issue 55, page 47.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

James Perry Walker

Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Rossville, Tenn., 1979

From the series Strange Fire.

From BOMB, Winter 1983, issue 5, page 23.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

James Perry Walker

Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, Rossville, Tenn., 1979

From the series Strange Fire.

From BOMB, Winter 1983, issue 5, page 24.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

Dawoud Bey.

From BOMB, Fall 1985, issue 13, page 79.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

Jean Michel Basquiat

Seated Figures, Two Poems, 1980

10 1/2 x 9 in.

From BOMB Spring 1989, issue 27, page 76.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

Jean Michel Basquiat

Seated Figures, Two Poems, 1980

10 1/2 x 9 in.

From  BOMB Spring 1989, issue 27, page 77.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

Glenn Ligon

Untitled, (set of 4), 1992

25 x 17 1/4 in.

From BOMB Spring 1994, issue 47, page 78.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

Glenn Ligon

Untitled, (set of 4), 1992

25 x 17 1/4 in.

From BOMB Spring 1994, issue 47, page 79.

Used with permission. All rights reserved. © Bomb Magazine, New Art Publications, and its Contributors.

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