Author: Joanne MatternPublisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617848476
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Discusses the life of Jacob Lawrence and describes his unique style of art.
Jacob Lawrence
Author: Joanne MatternPublisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617848476
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Discusses the life of Jacob Lawrence and describes his unique style of art.
Jacob Lawrence
Author: Stephanie E. DickinsonPublisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 150261071X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Jacob Lawrence was a talented painter whose work became an important part of the Harlem Renaissance and modern art. Learn about his life, influences, and impact.
Jacob Lawrence
Author: Sneed B. CollardPublisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761440581
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
It's not easy to find biographies that truly appeal to very young readers. Perhaps it's because they take a special talent to write! What's needed is an author who can distill a lot of complicated facts into clear, simple concepts, add a touch of warmth and humor, and create a story that a little kid won't want to put down. Add to the mix some lovely child-friendly art set in a framework of pastels and that's Benchmark's American Heroes. These charming titles, all carefully researched and well-documented, will fire the imaginations of young readers and help set them on a lifelong path to learning.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Author: Cary D. WintzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135455368
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedi a of Harlem Renaissance website.
Re-envisioning the Everyday
Author: John FaggPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271095814
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Often seen as backward-looking and convention-bound, genre painting representing scenes of everyday life was central to the work of twentieth-century artists such as John Sloan, Norman Rockwell, Jacob Lawrence, and others, who adapted such subjects to an era of rapid urbanization, mass media, and modernist art. Re-envisioning the Everyday asks what their works do to the tradition of genre painting and whether it remains a meaningful category through which to understand them. Working with and against the established narrative of American genre painting’s late nineteenth-century decline into obsolescence, John Fagg explores how artists and illustrators used elements of the tradition to picture everyday life in a rapidly changing society, whether by appealing to its nostalgic and historical connotations or by updating it to address new formal and thematic concerns. Fagg argues that genre painting enabled twentieth-century artists to look slowly and carefully at scenes of everyday life and, on some occasions, to understand those scenes as sites of political oppression and resistance. But it also limited them to anachronistic ways of seeing and tied them to a freighted history of stereotyping and condescension. By surveying genre painting when its status and relevance were uncertain and by looking at works that stretch and complicate its boundaries, this book considers what the form is and probes the wider practice of generic categorization. It will appeal to students and scholars of American art history, art criticism, and cultural studies.
Uplifting a People
Author: Marybeth GasmanPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820474748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Philanthropy is typically considered to be within the province of billionaires. This book broadens that perspective by highlighting modest acts of giving by African Americans on behalf of their own people. Examining the important tradition of Black philanthropy, this work documents its history: its beginning as a response to discrimination through self-help among freed slaves, and its expansion to include the support of education, religion, the arts, and legal efforts on behalf of civil rights. Using diverse approaches, the authors illuminate a new world of philanthropy - one that will be of interest to scholars and students alike. Chapters review the contributions of such major figures as Booker T. Washington and Thurgood Marshall, and discuss the often-surprising practices and methods of contemporary African American donors."--Jacket.
Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research
Author: Ernest T. StringerPublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 141299313X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Helping teachers engage K–12 students as participatory researchers to accomplish highly effective learning outcomes Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K–12 Classroom demonstrates how teachers can use action research as an integral component of teaching and learning. The text uses examples and lesson plans to demonstrate how student research processes can be incorporated into classroom lessons that are linked to standards. Key Features Guides teachers through systematic steps of planning, instruction, assessment, and evaluation, taking into account the diverse abilities and characteristics of their students, the complex body of knowledge and skills they must acquire, and the wide array of learning activities that can be engaged in the process Demonstrates how teacher action research and student action learning—working in tandem—create a dynamic, engaging learning community that enables students to achieve desired learning outcomes Provides clear directions and examples of how to apply action research to core classroom activities: lesson planning, instructional processes, student learning activities, assessment, and evaluation
Imagery of Lynching
Author: Dora ApelPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813534596
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Outside of the classroom and scholarly publications, lynching has long been a taboo subject. Nice people, it is felt, do not talk about it, and they certainly do not look at images representing the atrocity. In Imagery of Lynching, Dora Apel contests this adopted stance of ignorance. Through a careful and compelling analysis of over one hundred representations of lynching, she shows how the visual documentation of such crimes can be a central vehicle for both constructing and challenging racial hierarchies. She examines how lynching was often orchestrated explicitly for the camera and how these images circulated on postcards, but also how they eventually were appropriated by antilynching forces and artists from the 1930s to the present. She further investigates how photographs were used to construct ideologies of "whiteness" and "blackness," the role that gender played in these visual representations, and how interracial desire became part of the imagery. Offering the fullest and most systematic discussion of the depiction of lynching in diverse visual forms, this book addresses questions about race, class, gender, and dissent in the shaping of American society. Although we may want to avert our gaze, Apel holds it with her sophisticated interpretations of traumatic images and the uses to which they have been put.
A Head Start on Picturing America
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Resource guide supports the Picturing America program, which encourages children to learn about art and history by observing and talking about art works.
Pan-African Chronology III
Author: Everett Jenkins, Jr.Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786445076
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
This third volume of the Pan-African Chronology set covers 1914 through 1929, a time of two seminal events: World War I and the Black Awakening. In World War I, people of African descent fought for both sides, earning distinction on the battlefields of France as well as in the jungles and deserts of Africa. The "Black Awakening," a period from 1919 through 1929, marked the dawning of global awareness of the contributions of African people to the culture of the world. The book is arranged by year and events of each year are grouped by region. It also has two special biographical divisions for W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey.