HUA Assignment #9

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kara Walker is an African-American artist who was born of November 26, 1969. Her artwork symbolizes gender, sexuality, race and identity. Inspired by her father's artwork at the age of 3, she became best known for her black cut-paper silhouettes. Most of her artwork are installations that circulate around the concept of race and stereotypes. Her cut-paper silhouettes are unique because they reduce the complexity of the human form to such simplicity. These silhouettes and some of her installations involve viewers, making them part of the art. Today, she is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes, however, also works in other areas such as text, light projection and animation.

Sources

1) http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=art_design_theses 

2) http://www.art21.org/texts/kara-walker/interview-kara-walker-the-melodrama-of-gone-with-the-wind 

3) http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/Main/TechniquesAndMedia

4) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meSWqY_vMo0

OUTLINE

1)  “Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart”. This is Kara Walker’s first large scale cut out paper silhouette mural. 

2) "Letter from a Black Girl (1998)". This is one of Kara Walker’s purely text-based pieces.

3) "Darkytown Rebellion". This shows her talent in using light projection to involve her viewers.

4) "Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions". Kara Walker uses text and animation to tell a story.

5) "Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!" One of Kara Walker’s latest pieces involving her famous silhouettes.