{"id":5222,"date":"2016-04-08T18:57:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2016-04-08T18:57:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:57:47","slug":"vivien-fryd-delivers-paper-on-kara-walker-at-popular-culture-association-conference-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2016\/04\/vivien-fryd-delivers-paper-on-kara-walker-at-popular-culture-association-conference-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivien Fryd Delivers Paper on Kara Walker at Popular Culture Association Conference in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"header_event_site\"<\/a>Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, delivered a paper addressing “Kara Walker’s About the Title<\/em>:\u00a0 Anti-Euro-American Colonialism and Imperialism” in the Popular Art, Architecture, and Design area of the Popular Culture Association Conference held in late March in Seattle, WA.<\/p>\n

Kara Walker\u2019s About the title\u2014I had wanted to title this \u201csketch after my Mississippi youth\u201d or \u201cthe excavation\u201d as I pictured it a sort of introduction to the panorama to come. However the image, which is partly borrowed, is of an Indian mound–painted by Mr. J. Egan in 1850 is meant to remind the dear viewer of another place altogether, from which we suckle life.\u00a0 Perhaps my rendering is too subtle . . . .<\/em> (2002) expands the scope of her condemnation of racial politics in the United States, <\/em>which usually refers to the perversity of slavery in the pre-Civil War antebellum past and its effect on the present, and also implicates the mistreatment of Indian remains.<\/p>\n

Walker depicts a nineteenth-century excavation of an Indian mound appropriated from John J.\u00a0 Egan\u2019s multi-paneled Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley <\/em>(1850). <\/em>She broadened her powerful critique of the transnational slave trade, southern slavery, and post-Civil War racism to also include post-colonialist discourse\u2014<\/em> Euro-American colonialism and imperialism, which is referenced in her enormous drawing.\u00a0 About the title <\/em>embodies anti-colonial discourse as an extension of her better known anti-racist discourse; and it both extends and complicates Walker\u2019s oeuvre to include references to the problematic and forced contributions of African slaves to the traumas experienced by native peoples.\u00a0 In this work, she collapses past and present, textual and visual, the fictional and actual to expose the past wrongs against African Americans and Indians as a \u201crememory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, delivered a paper addressing “Kara Walker’s About the Title:\u00a0 Anti-Euro-American Colonialism and Imperialism” in the Popular Art, Architecture, and Design area of the Popular Culture Association Conference held in late March in Seattle, WA. Kara Walker\u2019s About the title\u2014I had wanted to title this \u201csketch after my Mississippi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hart","category-lectures","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}