AH 342 Black Subjects in White Art History: Fall 2021 Compendium

Kara Walker: Controversial Expressionist




In this podcast, I spoke about one of the most controversial African American artist of the Neo-expressionism era, Kara Elizabeth Walker. She is a contemporary painter, filmmaker and installation artist who focuses on the race, gender, sexuality and violence in her work. She is famous for her collaged silhouettes plastered on a blank white wall. One of her best panoramic silhouettes would be Gone: An Historical Romace Of The Civil War As It Occurred Between The Dusky Thighs of Young Negress and Her Heart from 1994 which is the main topic of the podcast. 
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[2] Lisa Farrington, African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History ( (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 344.
 
[3] Lisa Farrington, African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History ( (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 344.
 
[4] “The Melodrama of Gone with the Wind”, Art21, 11/2011, https://art21.org/read/kara-walker-the-melodrama-of-gone-with-the-wind/.
 
[5]“Gone - Kara Walker”, WidowCranky, 6/8/2019,  https://widowcranky.com/2019/06/08/gone-kara-walker/.
 
[6] Lisa Farrington, African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History ( (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 344.
 
[7] Lisa Farrington, African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History ( (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 345.
 
[8]  Lisa Farrington, African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History ( (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 345.
 




 

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