AH104 Prompts

How did artists, particularly artists of color, use their cultures and communities to convey a sense of empowered or collective identity, reflecting the idea of “the invention of ourselves by ourselves”

Black Hawk, Lakota Dream or Vision of Himself Changed to a Destroyer Riding a Buffalo Eagle; Yolanda López, Self Portrait as Our Lady of Guadalupe; Kara Walker, African / American; Xavier Viramontes, Boycott Grapes; Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery to Reconstruction.

How have artists used the theme of the border, wall, or other rigid barriers (physical, conceptual, or emotional) to create critical or hopeful artworks

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks; Judith F. Baca, Great Wall of Los Angeles; Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians; Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum; Adrian Piper, My Calling (Card) #1 (Reactive Guerrilla Performance…).

How have marginalized artists used their own bodies (self-portraits, performance, body parts) to create meaningful art about identity

Francisco Clapera, From Spanish and Indigenous, a Mestiza; Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians; James Luna, Artifact Piece; Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still; Yolanda López, Self Portrait as Our Lady of Guadalupe.

In what artworks can we consider how the body, as an artistic medium, relates to the construction of gender or gender identity

Francisco Clapera, From Spanish and Indigenous, a Mestiza; Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Couple in The Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians; James Luna, Artifact Piece; Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still; Yolanda López, Self Portrait as Our Lady of Guadalupe.