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Unit 2: Teaching with images

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a guide to using works of art in the K-12 classroom

Developing confidence

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Line as an art element
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Shape and form
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Color
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Space
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Texture
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Surface and Depth
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Light and Shadow
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Modeling the method

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It's not only about the American Revolution, Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware
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Cultures and slavery in the American south: a Face Jug from Edgefield county
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Finding meaning in abstraction
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How to do visual (formal) analysis in art history
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Describing what you see: Sculpture (Henry Moore, Reclining Figure)
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Go deeper: oppression and resistance

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The triangle trade and the colonial table, sugar, tea, and slavery
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An African muslim among the founding fathers, Charles Willson Peale’s Yarrow Mamout
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Before the Civil War, the Mexican-American War as prelude
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Seneca Village: the lost history of African Americans in New York
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Cultures and slavery in the American south: a Face Jug from Edgefield county
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Johnson, A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive Slaves
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Cotton, oil, and the economics of history
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Representing freedom during the Civil War
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Martyr or murderer? Hovenden's The Last Moments of John Brown
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An artifact of racism: a Connecticut Klan robe
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A beacon of hope, Aaron Douglas's Aspiration
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Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (*long version*)
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Romare Bearden, Factory Workers
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Horace Pippin's Mr. Prejudice
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Harlem 1948, Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks and the photo essay
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A Harlem street scene by Jacob Lawrence, Ambulance Call
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Identity and civil rights in 1960s America
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An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs, Thornton Dial's Blood and Meat
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History and deception: Kenseth Armstead’s Surrender Yorktown 1781
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Reflecting on "We the People"
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Titus Kaphar, The Cost of Removal
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Turning Uncle Tom's Cabin upside down, Alison Saar's Topsy and the Golden Fleece
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Kehinde Wiley, Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps
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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
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Go deeper: understanding museums

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Looking at Art Museums
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Artists in and against the museum
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Remake the Met
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Looting, collecting, and exhibiting: the Bubon bronzes
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From tomb to museum: the story of the Sarpedon Krater
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Nazi looting: Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally
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Paikea at the American Museum of Natural History
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The Looting of Cambodian Antiquities
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Go deeper: where are the women artists?

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Christine de Pizan and a City of Ladies
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Female artists in the renaissance
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Introduction to gender in renaissance Italy
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Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects
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Emily Mary Osborn, Nameless and Friendless
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Morisot, The Cradle
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A summer day in Paris: Morisot's Hunting Butterflies
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Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
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Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
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Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, Women of Allah series
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Go deeper: Indigenous peoples: art since 1800

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Two sides of Lakota life on a beaded suitcase
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The Pueblo Modernism of Velino Shije Herrera
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Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe
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What's in a map? Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's "State Names"
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Paikea at the American Museum of Natural History
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Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation
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Speaking to past and present, Clarissa Rizal’s Resilience Robe
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Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Native Hosts
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Go deeper: why is that art?

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Conceptual Art: An Introduction
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Dada Readymades
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Must art be beautiful? Picasso's The Old Guitarist
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The $150,000 Banana
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Art as concept: Duchamp, In Advance of the Broken Arm
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Duchamp, Fountain
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Go deeper: art and the environment

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Smithson, Spiral Jetty
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Mesa Verde and the preservation of Ancestral Puebloan heritage
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Saving Venice
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Navigation Chart, Marshall Islands
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Michel Tuffery, Pisupo Lua Afe
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Mogao caves at Dunhuang
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Endangered coastlines and lifeways
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Desert to Suburb, framing the American Dream
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Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite, and the battle for National Parks
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The landscape remade, Thiebaud's Ponds and Streams
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Olmsted and Vaux, Central Park
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Go deeper: false, misleading, and unreliable images

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Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation
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The making of an American myth: Benjamin West, Penn's Treaty with the Indians
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Picturing Spanish conquest in an era of U.S. expansion
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Beyond New York — Bellows and World War I
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Damnatio memoriae—Roman sanctions against memory
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The Severan Tondo: Damnatio Memoriae in ancient Rome
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Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa
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Casta paintings: constructing identity in Spanish colonial America
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Go deeper: the pluralism of American identities

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Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown
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A Jewish family in early New York
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Becoming a city: daily life in 1820, Brooklyn
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Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience (Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941)
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What's in a map? Jaune Quick-To-See Smith's "State Names"
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An African muslim among the founding fathers, Charles Willson Peale’s Yarrow Mamout
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Reflecting on "We the People"
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Seneca Village: the lost history of African Americans in New York
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Alfredo Jaar, A Logo for America
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Unit 2: Teaching with images

About this unit

Developing confidence

Learn

Modeling the method

Learn

Go deeper: oppression and resistance

Learn

Go deeper: understanding museums

Learn

Go deeper: where are the women artists?

Learn

Go deeper: Indigenous peoples: art since 1800

Learn

Go deeper: why is that art?

Learn

Go deeper: art and the environment

Learn

Go deeper: false, misleading, and unreliable images

Learn

Go deeper: the pluralism of American identities

Learn

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