Every Thursday, we are sharing our favorite books about drawing and artists working in the medium. “Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.” - Kara Walker Kara Walker’s work examines race, gender, and identity. “The Ecstasy of St. Kara” was the catalog released in 2016 to accompany her newest series of large-scale drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The drawings stem from her consideration of monuments and notions of permanence and impermanence following her massive public art project: ”A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant”. Sited in the industrial relics of Brooklyn’s legendary Domino Sugar factory, Walker’s installation -- a massive, sugar-coated sphinx-like woman -- responded to the building and its history. The exhi...