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FREEDOM: A FABLE BY KARA ELIZABETH WALKER. A CURIOUS INTERPRETATION OF THE WIT OF A NEGRESS IN TROUBLED TIMES, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS - 1997 PETER NORTON FAMILY CHRISTMAS PROJECT ARTIST'S MULTIPLE
(WALKER, KARA). Walker, Kara. Los Angeles: Peter Norton Family Foundation, 1997. First Edition. Square 8vo. Embossed Leather Over Boards. Artist's Multiple. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (24pp), illustrated in b&w with four die-cut pop-up silhouettes. "Each year the Peter Norton family commissions an art edition to celebrate the Christmas season and holidays. This year's is a pop-up silhouette book by Kara Walker." Designed in 1997 for the Norton Family Christmas project by Kara Walker, this extraordinarily beautiful artist's book weaves the renowned contemporary African-American artist's text through a sequence of four elaborate slavery-inflected silhouette pop-ups. A bright, crisp, most handsome example of this exquisite hors commerce multiple with its original Norton Family Foundation gift card laid in. 0-9660139-0-5 Inventory Number: 027631