QUIZ 7 Please put everything away and out of sight except paper and pens. Write your name, today’s date, and Art 112/212 on top.

6.18 Kara Walker, Gone: An Historical Romance of the Civil War As It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, 1994. Detail. Cut paper on wall, ca. 180” x 50' (396.2 cm x 15.24 m). Installed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2012 Kara Walker/Image courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. 8 minutes Identify: 1) artist’s full name and nationality, 2) title, 3) date, 4) medium (briefly describe materials and process) Short essay: What is the artist’s narrative in this and all their work? Why is it included in the chapter on history and memory? How is collective memory potentially effected?

Identify: 1) artist’s full name and nationality, 2) title, 3) date, 4) medium, 5) movement Short essay: What is the artist’s message in this and all their work? Explain how that meaning is conveyed in the choices the artist made in form (choices of formal elements of art) and content. What are the stylistic references?

Identify: 1) artist’s full name and nationality, 2) title, 3) date, 4) medium (briefly describe materials and process) Short essay: What “theatrical” art movement from the seventies do some of the formal choices of this installation rely on? What is the artist’s socio-political narrative in this and all their work? Why is it included in the chapter on history and memory? 8 minutes

Identify: 1) artist’s full name and nationality, 2) title, 3) date, 4) medium (list materials used) Short essay: How does the choice of materials and installation method (site, composition) convey the artist’s intended socio-political message? 8 minutes