University:
Boston University
Course:
CAS WR 153 | Writing, Research, & Inquiry with Creativity/Innovation
Academic year:

2023
Views:

256

Pages:

10
Author:

Patricia West

Figure 1 Kara Walker Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart 1994 Figure 2 Kara Walker Slavery! Slavery! presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque Southern Slavery of “Life at ‘Ol’ Virginny’s Hole’ (sketches from Plantation Life)” See the Peculiar Institution as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker, an Emancipated Negress and leader in her Cause! 1997 Figure 3 Kara Walker Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored 1997 Figure 4 Kara Walker The Emancipation Approximation (scenes 20-23) 1999-2000 Figure 5 Kara Walker Success 1998 Figure 6 Kara Walker Camptown Ladies 1998 Figure 7 Kara Walker The End of Uncle Tom and the Grand Allegorical Tableau of Eva in Heaven 1995 Figure 8 Kara Walker Darkytown Rebellion 2002 Figure 9 Kara Walker Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On) 2000 Figure 10 Slavery! Slavery! presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque Southern Slavery of “Life at ‘Ol’ Virginny’s Hole’ (sketches from Plantation Life)” See the Peculiar Institution as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker, an Emancipated Negress and leader in her Cause! Installation view, Whitney Museum of American Art 2007-2008