The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven
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The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven is a large-scale cut-paper silhouette installation by contemporary artist Kara Walker that critically reimagines themes of race, slavery, and sentimentality drawn from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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| The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven Context triple: [Kara Walker, notableWork, The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven]
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
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B.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an 1852 anti-slavery novel that powerfully influenced public opinion in the United States and abroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
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Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven Target entity description: The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven is a large-scale cut-paper silhouette installation by contemporary artist Kara Walker that critically reimagines themes of race, slavery, and sentimentality drawn from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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A.
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
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B.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves is a multi-volume collection of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, compiled in the 1930s and 1940s and regarded as one of the most important primary sources on American slavery.
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C.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States is a mid-19th-century travel narrative and social commentary that examines the economy, society, and conditions of slavery in the American South.
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D.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an 1852 anti-slavery novel that powerfully influenced public opinion in the United States and abroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
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E.
Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America is W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark historical study that reinterprets the Reconstruction era as a period of Black political agency and class struggle, challenging dominant racist narratives in U.S. historiography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art installation
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contemporary artwork ⓘ cut-paper silhouette work ⓘ |
| artForm |
silhouette
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wall-sized panorama ⓘ |
| artisticStyle |
black-on-white contrast
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panoramic frieze ⓘ silhouette figuration ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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surface form:
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Kara Walker ⓘ |
| depicts |
Eva
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Uncle Tom ⓘ characters from Uncle Tom’s Cabin ⓘ |
| genre |
conceptual art
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contemporary art ⓘ installation art ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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surface form:
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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| intendedEffect |
critique of sentimental abolitionist imagery
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provocation of viewer discomfort ⓘ re-examination of racial narratives in American history ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
antebellum American South
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race ⓘ sentimentality in literature ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ stereotypes of Black people ⓘ |
| medium |
cut-paper silhouettes
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wall installation ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art movement ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
allegorical tableau
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critical reimagining of Uncle Tom’s Cabin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critical engagement with Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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large-scale cut-paper silhouettes ⓘ use of allegory and theatrical tableau ⓘ |
| partOf | Kara Walker’s body of work on race and slavery ⓘ |
| technique |
adhesive application to gallery walls
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cut paper ⓘ |
| theme |
gender and race
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historical memory ⓘ mythologies of the Old South ⓘ power and domination ⓘ racial caricature ⓘ sentimental depictions of Black suffering ⓘ violence of slavery ⓘ |
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Subject: The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven Description of subject: The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven is a large-scale cut-paper silhouette installation by contemporary artist Kara Walker that critically reimagines themes of race, slavery, and sentimentality drawn from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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