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Author: Diana Abitz

Brand: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 0439374340
Number Of Pages: 48

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Original Language: English
Unknown: English
Published: English

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Reviewing facts can be fun with this kid-pleasing, curriculum-based game. Great for pairs or small groups, this resource includes 100 punch-out questions, a game board, and playing pieces. Questions come in multiple choice, true/false, and single answer formats, and have been carefully selected to help students sharpen their critical thinking skills and build their knowledge about American history. Many questions contain additional information that helps students make connections—and remember important facts.

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Author: Suzanne Brown

Brand: DIDAX
Edition: Reprint of Australian First Edition
ISBN: 1583240977
Number Of Pages: 120

Languages:
Original Language: English
Unknown: English
Published: English

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Combining teachers notes, historical information, high quality reproducible activity pages and detailed drawings bring these ancient civilizations to life in your classroom. Subjects covered include geography, agriculture, domestic life, culture and society, religion and so much more! Many hands-on activities included. 110 pages.

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Format: Illustrated

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Art criticism and historical analysis of classic and contemporary work from the database of Cv/Visual Arts Research. Formatted on a compact disc for Windows. Small Histories presents analytical essays on classic examples of Western art ranging from Masaccio's Trinity at S.Maria Novella, Florence to paintings by Vermeer, Cezanne, Salvador Dali and Francis Bacon. Postmodernist Culture includes notes for a lecture series at Middlesex University 1995-96, evaluating contributions by Bourdieu, Derrida, Baudrillard, Foster, McCracken and Langman, to cultural debates of art, society and spectacle. Curators & Collections includes interviews with keepers of leading national collections: Tate, National Gallery, IMMA Dublin, and a guide to over 350 public and private collections in Britain. London Review documents over one hundred exhibitions in museums and private galleries over a period of ten years. Cv Journal Volume 1-5 presents facsimiles of eleven issues of the quarterly review Cv Journal of the Arts.

Format: Audiobook

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Author:

• Melinda Watt
• Andrew Morrall

ISBN: 030012967X
Number Of Pages: 308

Languages:
Original Language: English
Unknown: English
Published: English

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Analyzing the theme, provenance, and history of the Vatican Laocon, Richard Brilliant traces the interpretation of this masterpiece of Greco-Roman sculpture through the ages, showing how these interpretations have shaped its reception. The Vatican Laocon has suffered the vicissitudes of changing tastes, differing agendas of incompatible interpretations, and relegation to the margins of aesthetic preference. Several Laocons are identified in this erudite and strikingly original study: the alleged, lost "Greek original" the extant marbles sculpted in the first century; the sixteenth-century restoration and its impact; the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century topos of critical judgment; the twentieth-century re-restored artifact of ancient art. Yet, the Vatican Laocon contains all of them in its obdurate self, and My Laocon treats their history as a means of demonstrating an artwork's power to transcend its critical reception.

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Author: N. Y.) Museum of Modern Art (New York

ISBN: 0810961334
Number Of Pages: 207

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Unknown: English
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Integrating the arts into all subject areas is proven to pique student interest and facilitate deeper connection with the material. These social studies activities encourage creative expression and inquiry to make learning personal and meaningful.

Living History in the Classroom is ideal for use in social studies and humanities classrooms because the lessons transmit information in an engaging and entertaining way. Save valuable preparation time with complete lessons on historical issues and encourage all students to experience history by getting personally involved with the content.

Students will love learning about history through mock trials, role-playing, political cartooning, period photography, creative writing and journals, building 3-D models, making masks, and music. Reproducible handouts, questions for discussion, assessments—including journals, portfolios, and student self-assessments—are included.

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ISBN: 0870701282
Number Of Pages: 256

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The first major book in English on one of the finest Dutch painters of
the seventeenth century

The Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681) was a slightly older contemporary of Johannes Vermeer. Ter Borch’s beautiful and evocative paintings were not only varied in subject but also unparalleled among his peers in capturing the elegance and grace of wealthy burghers, the shimmering surface of satin, the undulating rhythms of translucent lace cuffs, and the nuanced psychological interactions between figures in an interior scene. Indeed, ter Borch’s genre scenes clearly influenced works later painted by Vermeer.

This lovely book—the first major English-language publication on ter Borch’s paintings—presents a selection of some of the most outstanding works from each area of the artist’s career: the remarkable early pictures of the 1630s, the midcareer genre paintings for which he is best known, and the small portraits that brought him prosperity throughout his life. Essays by noted experts on Dutch art discuss ter Borch’s artistic development, the “modern” aspects of his paintings, and his renowned technique for painting satin.

This lavishly illustrated book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (November 7, 2004 to January 30, 2005), and the Detroit Institute of Arts (February 28 to May 1, 2005).

Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., is curator of northern baroque painting at the National Gallery of Art and the author of Johannes Vermeer and Vermeer and the Art of Painting, both available from Yale University Press; Alison McNeil Kettering is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History at Carleton College; Arie Wallert is curator at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; and Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman is curator of European painting and sculpture at the Cincinnati Art Museum.

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Unlike his friend Vermeer, Gerhard ter Borch (1617-1681) may never be the hero of a movie. Yet he is renowned for paintings that reveal the inner lives of men and women while scrupulously rendering the shimmering satin fabric of their elaborate clothing. The essays by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. and other art historians in Gerhard ter Borch present a clear and thorough overview of the Dutch master's life and work. Handsome color plates reproduce 52 major paintings from throughout his career, and additional black-and-white photographs provide key art historical context. Ter Borch's life is unusually well-documented, thanks in part to his doting father. He carefully preserved his young son's drawings and urged him (in a letter) to compose "modern" scenes and paint in a way that would produce the most "beautiful and flowing" effects. In his mature work, Ter Borch would move beyond stock genre scenes--jolly revelers, soldiers and prostitutes, and so forth--to create keenly observed figures with individual personalities. Ter Borch's subject matter also included portraits of wealthy patrons, rural scenes of his hometown and a vivid depiction of the signing of the Treaty of Muenster. But interior scenes are his special province. Their distinctiveness and the culture that shaped them are explored in ways that combine the hard data and theoretical underpinnings of scholarship with appealing, fact-based speculation. For example, in "Lady Drinking While Holding a Letter" (circa 1665), a woman in a lustrous golden dress--who resembles Ter Borch's cultured sister Gesina--stares moodily into space as she drinks a glass of wine and holds a drooping opened letter. Love letters were a popular theme in Dutch art. An old drinking song prescribed wine for melancholy. The painting may also recall an incident in the life of the real Gesina, whose serious romance ended a few years earlier. Ter Borch's technical brilliance is also discussed at length in an essay that incorporates UV fluorescent photos to analyze how dazzling optical effects can be created with flecks of paint. Gerard ter Borchis the catalogue for an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (through January 2005) that travels to the Detroit Institute of Arts. --Cathy Curtis

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