Download or read book Walls of Heritage Walls of Pride written by James Prigoff and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIRTEEN COLONIES & THE LOST COLONY(tm) Take a step back and discover the thirteen colonies of Colonial America. From European exploration through the American Revolution, witness the unique history and character of each colony. Trace the role of each colony in the American Revolution and that colony's impact on the formation of our Constitution. Georgia - Using primary source documents that include the Charter of Georgia, a map of the colony circa 1725, period portraits, and newspaper articles, this fascinating book traces the history of the colony from its founding to its being the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788."Good organization, well-written text which reads like a story, numerous quotes and historic incidents, attractive format and well-designed pages, drawings, maps...all make this title a recommended source for studies in the colonial period of American history." - ASSOCIATION OF REG. XI SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, TEXAS
Download or read book Art Pride and Heritage written by Angela Rae Waller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do students naturally select artwork that is of their own heritage or do they choose what they find inspiring for other reasons? The purpose of this study was to detect if students prefer artwork based on what they find visually appealing or is it based on their racial background ethnic and cultural traditions. The answers to these questions may provide art teachers better insight on developing art lessons to teach learners to value cultures other than their own. The sample for this study was selected from a total of 98 elementary, intermediate, middle and high school classes comprised of Caucasian, African American and Latino heritages. The participants in elementary are in 3rd grade, 5th grade for intermediate, 7th grade for middle, and 9th through 12th for high school. Their ages ranged from 8 to 18 years. The measuring instrument was a PowerPoint presentation. This was viewed by students and was followed by a closed ended questionnaire. Items were selected from a large data base of artwork used nationally and selected by the classroom teacher according to curriculum standards. The results of the study were tabulated and presented in graph form. It was hypothesized that students in elementary school would choose artwork that they found interesting for a broad range of reasons. Students in high school would choose artwork along racial lines and that students in intermediate and middle school would show mixed results. The data did not support the hypothesis. Results showed that elementary students choose artwork along racial lines. Caucasian artwork was chosen most frequently by high school, intermediate and middle school students, even though Caucasians comprised the least amount of participants in the study. The results could give educators more insight in the need to motivate our elementary students to value artwork from many cultures. Perhaps with earlier introduction to the content of other cultures and encouraging techniques from teachers, elementary students will appreciate art that is not only based on familiarity but from a place of inspiration. Diverse artwork can be a viable educational tool in a variety of subject areas with both cognitive and psychological benefits for all students. Art teachers should be consistent in providing this introduction to world visual cultures at an earlier grade level. In the age of multiculturalism, it is important that educators take advantage of every available tool with which to increase students' personal and global understanding, motivation, and academic achievement.
Download or read book Pride and Participation written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadowshaper The Shadowshaper Cypher Book 1 written by Daniel José Older and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Magnificent." -- Holly Black, New York Times Book Review Come to the crossroads, to the crossroads comeSierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears . . . Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on.Where the powers converge and become oneWith the help of a fellow artist named Robbie, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, a thrilling magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers one by one -- and the killer believes Sierra is hiding their greatest secret. Now she must unravel her family's past, take down the killer in the present, and save the future of shadowshaping for herself and generations to come.Full of a joyful, defiant spirit and writing as luscious as a Brooklyn summer night, Shadowshaper introduces a fantasy heroine and magic unlike any you've ever seen before, and marks the YA debut of a brilliant new storyteller.
Download or read book Reconstructing Cultural Identity in Artistic Practice written by Michelle Van Eps and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract : This paper is a Doctoral exegesis which discusses, analyses and contextualises the artistic quest of contemporary Australian-born artist, Michelle van Eps, to reconstruct her cultural identity in her artwork through investigating her paternal Dutch ancestry. Addressing Australian artists with mixed cultural heritage, the paper explores the phenomenon of a foreign {u2018}missing culture{u2019} created by the dismissal of the validity of a past as well as a present, cultural ancestry. In this exegesis, the dilemma of the mixed heritage artist is related to Australian sociocultural dynamics and cultural mythologies, describing the possible impact of {u2018}missing culture{u2019} upon artistic practice as one of {u2018}cultural vacuum{u2019}. Michelle van Eps retrospectively identifies three developmental stages in her practice from 2004 to 2009 which allowed her to reach a point of cultural hybridity and place her cultural identity into perspective whilst still continuing to practice in Australia. The {u2018}Prejudice{u2019} phase, the {u2018}Pride{u2019} phase and the {u2018}Hybridity{u2019} phase are clearly demarcated in the artist{u2019}s work and form a narrative of an artistic shift in cultural perspective which includes a form of migration which is described as {u2018}virtual migration{u2019}. Her experience is compared to that of mixed heritage case studies, Lindy Lee, an Australian-Asian artist and Inga Hunter who was born in England with Afro-Carribean ancestry but has practiced art predominately in Australia. This dissertation frames notions of diaspora, cultural dichotomy, ancestry, selfesteem, belonging, prejudice, pride and hybridity within the context of an evolutionary artistic journey in which the artist seeks to come to terms with mixed heritage. Through self-reflection which exposed the interaction between private creation and public exhibition, Michelle appropriated 17th century Dutch painting compositions and techniques to developmentally reach a point of conceptual and cultural maturity in her work.
Download or read book Ceremonial Ritual Mask Art Pride of Heritage Culture History written by Grace Divine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceremonial Ritual Mask Art Pride of Heritage, Culture, History Remembering the Ancestor Spirits Challenge 2017 Art & Prose to Raise Awareness to Humanitarian Causes by Artist Grace Divine
Download or read book Spirit written by Anthony Head and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his artwork. After receiving a Purple Heart and undergoing two years of rehabilitative therapy and the amputation of his right forearm—including his painting hand—Treviño enrolled in San Antonio College, determined to learn how to draw and paint with his left hand. In 1974 he produced the impressive La Historia Chicana, a one hundred-foot-long work embracing six centuries of Mexican American heritage now on display inside the Sueltenfuss Library at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Since then, Treviño has completed many more paintings and public artworks, including Spirit of Healing, the nine-story hand-cut tile mosaic that graces Christus Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital in downtown San Antonio. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, and the San Antonio Museum of Art. Anthony Head’s sensitive and elegant biography now offers readers an intimate view of the artist’s life. Head captures Treviño’s determination, artistic vision, and the deep pride in his Chicano heritage that he transmits to the world through his creations. Spirit: The Life and Art of Jesse Treviño promises to engage and inspire readers with its vivid portrayal of this triumph of art and the human spirit.
Download or read book War Art written by Renato Miracco and published by Gangemi Editore Spa. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures is the result of a joint effort by the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento in Rome, the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, and the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C.. All joined forces to ensure that the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War is not forgotten. On July 27, 2014 the Embassy of Italy remembered the last day of peace before the tragedy of WWI with a touching ceremony. At Arlington National Cemetery, a trumpeter played the moving notes of our “The Silence” – our equivalent of “Taps” in the US, and traditionally performed when bidding farewell to the fallen – while musicians in other cities throughout the world simultaneously did the same. To fully understand such a world-changing event as the Great War is to ensure and preserve peace and democracy today. In addition, its comprehension enables us to reconcile our legitimate pride in our national identities with the deep awareness of being citizens of the world. This photographic exhibition, based on images from the Museo del Risorgimento’s archive, highlights the ravages that war can wreak not only on human beings, but also on what should be the inviolate beauty of art. This exhibit represents a unique opportunity to recapture and gain more insight into a significant part of our history. The specific focus on preserving cultural heritage provides a first-hand cultural and historical perspective of the conflict, as well as of the broader Italian framework. It was also thanks to the vital support of the US that Italy was able to preserve most of its artistic treasures – and thus of its identity – from ruthless annihilation. This was in some ways the precursor of a tradition that was later embodied by the notable Monuments Men during the Second World War.
Download or read book Art Physics written by Leonard Shlain and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art interprets the visible world. Physics charts its unseen workings. The two realms seem completely opposed. But consider that both strive to reveal truths for which there are no words––with physicists using the language of mathematics and artists using visual images. In Art & Physics, Leonard Shlain tracks their breakthroughs side by side throughout history to reveal an astonishing correlation of visions. From the classical Greek sculptors to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, and from Aristotle to Einstein, artists have foreshadowed the discoveries of scientists, such as when Monet and Cezanne intuited the coming upheaval in physics that Einstein would initiate. In this lively and colorful narrative, Leonard Shlain explores how artistic breakthroughs could have prefigured the visionary insights of physicists on so many occasions throughout history. Provicative and original, Art & Physics is a seamless integration of the romance of art and the drama of science––and an exhilarating history of ideas.
Download or read book Handbook of Research and Policy in Art Education written by Elliot W. Eisner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides an overview of the progress that has characterized the field of research and policy in art education. It profiles and integrates history, policy, learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and competing perspectives.
Download or read book Sense and Essence written by Birgit Meyer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.
Download or read book Pride in Modesty written by Michelangelo Sabatino and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-05-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.
Download or read book Wrapped in Pride written by Doran H. Ross and published by Fowler Museum at UCLA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kente is not only the best known of all African textiles, it is also one of the most admired of all fabrics worldwide. Originating among the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, this brilliantly colored and intricately patterned strip-woven cloth was traditionally associated with royalty. Over time, however, it has come to be worn and used in many different contexts. In Wrapped in Pride, seven distinguished scholars present an exhaustive examination of the history of kente from its earliest use in Ghana to its present-day impact in the African Diaspora. Doran H. Ross is the former director of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
Download or read book War Art written by AA. VV. and published by Gangemi Editore spa. This book was released on 2016-02-03T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War and Art: The Preservation of Italian Treasures is the result of a joint effort by the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento in Rome, the National World War I Museum in Kansas City, and the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C.. All joined forces to ensure that the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War is not forgotten. On July 27, 2014 the Embassy of Italy remembered the last day of peace before the tragedy of WWI with a touching ceremony. At Arlington National Cemetery, a trumpeter played the moving notes of our “The Silence” – our equivalent of “Taps” in the US, and traditionally performed when bidding farewell to the fallen – while musicians in other cities throughout the world simultaneously did the same. To fully understand such a world-changing event as the Great War is to ensure and preserve peace and democracy today. In addition, its comprehension enables us to reconcile our legitimate pride in our national identities with the deep awareness of being citizens of the world. This photographic exhibition, based on images from the Museo del Risorgimento’s archive, highlights the ravages that war can wreak not only on human beings, but also on what should be the inviolate beauty of art. This exhibit represents a unique opportunity to recapture and gain more insight into a significant part of our history. The specific focus on preserving cultural heritage provides a first-hand cultural and historical perspective of the conflict, as well as of the broader Italian framework. It was also thanks to the vital support of the US that Italy was able to preserve most of its artistic treasures – and thus of its identity – from ruthless annihilation. This was in some ways the precursor of a tradition that was later embodied by the notable Monuments Men during the Second World War.
Download or read book Pride of India written by and published by SAMSKRITA BHARATI [nonProfit. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes contributed articles.
Download or read book Prejudice and Pride written by Richard Sandell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pride Predesign written by Eduardo Côrte-Real and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
