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        "tombstone": "The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in Five Acts: The End, 1995. Kara Walker (American, b. 1969), Landfall Press. Etching and aquatint; sheet: 88.5 x 59 cm (34 13/16 x 23 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1999.93.e. \u00a9 Kara Walker",
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        "title": "The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in Five Acts: The End",
        "creation_date": "1995",
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                "description": "Somerset Satin wove paper",
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        "collection": "PR - Etching",
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        "edition_of_the_work": "20",
        "copyright": "\u00a9 Kara Walker",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 541557,
                    "title": "New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper",
                    "description": "<i>New Narratives: Contemporary Works on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2023-April 14, 2024).",
                    "opening_date": "2023-11-19T05:00:00"
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            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 229): May 5, 2009 - September 11, 2009.",
                    "opening_date": "2009-05-05T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (1/26/2014 - 5/18/2014); \"Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings\"",
                    "opening_date": "2014-01-26T00:00:00"
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        "description": "In the 1990s, American artist Kara Walker became well-known for using the visual language of the silhouette\u2014an historic form of portraiture popular during the time of slavery in the United States\u2014to create large wall murals featuring imaginary stories of the antebellum South. Her stories are based on stereotypes of plantation life from novels like Gone <br>with the Wind, but with disturbing or unresolved storylines. This group of etchings functions as one story, titled sheet by sheet like chapters in a historical romance novel: \u201cThe Beginning,\u201d \u201cThe Hunt,\u201d \u201cThe Chase,\u201d \u201cThe Plunge,\u201d and \u201cThe End.\u201d Designed to provoke viewers, Walker\u2019s work has induced powerful responses. Walker herself has said, \u201cChallenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.\u201d",
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        "accession_date": "1999-06-07T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:17.623000"
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