Kara Walker's Fons Americanus: A Monument about Monuments

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Kara Walker's work asks us to struggle with big ideas and helps us make the invisible assumptions in our world visible. This video is me struggling with the difficult objects she creates, Fons Americanus, and I couldn't be more grateful for the lesson.
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Works Cited
Gambari, Olga, and Kara Walker. Kara Walker: a Negress of Noteworthy Talent; Fondazione Merz, 2011.
PEABODY, REBECCA. CONSUMING STORIES: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race. UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2021.
Tate. “Kara Walker's Fons Americanus - Look Closer.” Tate, www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/kara-walker-2674/kara-walkers-fons-americanus.
Walker, Kara, et al. Kara Walker: Fons Americanus. Tate Publishing, 2019.
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@mountpennart Год назад

I always end my Art History curriculum with Kara Walker- a good reminder that beauty can be dangerous, and that Art always, always needs a closer look. This was a masterful discussion. Thank you as always. You bring so much to the table.

@AmorSciendi Год назад

Amazing. So happy she's taught in schools

@AprilMartinChartrandMS Месяц назад

She is exhibiting July 1, 2024 at SFMOMA. I can't wait to Kara's work.

@AmorSciendi Месяц назад

Oh amazing. Can't wait to hear about what she does there. I have a video about the Julie Mehretu murals in the entrance of SFMOMA

@DwRockett 2 года назад

4:28 such a great point, and one that it is quite important for people to remember when discussing so much related to history

@DwRockett 2 года назад

Awesome video, need to look into her work now

@AmorSciendi 2 года назад

Real glad you liked it. My longest video yet.

@lwazihlophe8955 Год назад

Thank you for creating this video. It has made me realise how I an African have been conditioned to not value art and it's place in my memory and how that was intentionaly done. Through your video and Karas work I am now slightly open to see and observe more.

@garyrickard6189 2 года назад

Thanks!

@Icianvers Год назад

Thank you for your effort to deliver clarity.

@Terzy Год назад

So good

@aeromodeller1 Год назад

Anna - Key West. Anna is the name of the boat. Key West is it's home port.

@MiguelLopez-kc5ww 2 года назад

excellent shit as always

@AmorSciendi 2 года назад

Thanks

@artstrology Год назад

One of the few times a mimetic theme is ok.

@gertanckaert3023 Год назад

thank you for breaking down the heady intellectual views on art

@septology 2 года назад

"K West" sounds like a Bowie reference to me, but I'm not sure what it would signify in this case

@septology 2 года назад

Alternatively, going with Kanye, it could be referencing his notorious "Slavery was a choice"

@AmorSciendi 2 года назад

Yeah. In what ways a Bowie reference?

@septology 2 года назад

@@AmorSciendi On the album cover for Ziggy Stardust, Bowie is standing below a sign that says "K. West"

@AmorSciendi 2 года назад

Ah. Cool. Didn't know that. Thanks

@robertwalker2052 Год назад

I'm less enthused about this. Her modeling is clumsy, and her themes, so well-rehearsed here, are heavy-handed and obvious. I think it would be difficult to find someone who disagrees with the thrust of this--least of all, me-- but in execution this is convoluted and wanting in the elemental skills anyone who calls himself a sculptor should be long-since adept at doing. I am referring to the crude execution of facial features, no better than claymation. No work of art is ever MERELY its meaning. This work needs more gestation in the execution department.

@NickNicholson13 Год назад

You don't have to care too much about the quality of the execution when your artistic intent boils down to "White man bad".

@thomheil Год назад

I go back and forth when I think about the beauty (or lack of beauty) in Walker's sculptures. Her paper silhouettes are so exquisite that her sculpture tends to disappoint me. But I wonder if she's trying to get us to identify with the people who would have built this fountain instead of the Victoria fountain. If the people whose experiences she's depicting created a giant sculpture, would it possibly have looked like this? Also, what is the beauty of the Victoria fountain covering up? Maybe a fountain about colonialism and slavery shouldn't be beautiful at all.