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"Inspired by the childhood of the artist Jacob Lawrence in 1930s Harlem"--Front jacket flap.
Author : Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Publisher : Museum of Modern Art
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780870709654
"Inspired by the childhood of the artist Jacob Lawrence in 1930s Harlem"--Front jacket flap.
Author : Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
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Page : pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
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Author : Susan Goldman Rubin
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780811865821
Busy city! Beep, beep, beep! Jacob Lawrence's exuberant artwork guides readers through a bustling city, complete with builders rat-a-tatting and children playing in the streets. With rhythmic text and 11 iconic paintings, this book is both an introduction to an influential artist and a celebration of city life.
Author : Leah Dickerman
Publisher : Museum of Modern Art, New York
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : African Americans in art
ISBN : 9780870709647
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrence's Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collections of both institutions, and a crucial example of the way in which history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era. In 2015 and 2016, marking the centenary of the Great Migration's start (1915-16), the panels will be reunited in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and then The Phillips Collection. Published to accompany the exhibition, this publication both grounds Lawrence's Migration series in the cultural and political debates that shaped the young artist's work and highlights the series' continued resonance for artists and writers working today. An essay by Leah Dickerman situates the series in relation to heady contemporary discussions of the artist's role as a social agent; a growing imperative to write - and give image to - black history in the late 1930s and early 1940s; and an emergent sense of activist politics. Elsa Smithgall traces the exhibition history of the Migration panels from their display at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1941 to their acquisition by MoMA and the Phillips Collection a year later. Short commentaries on each panel explore Lawrence's career and painting technique and aspects of the social history of the Migration portrayed in his images. The catalogue also debuts ten poems newly commissioned from acclaimed poets written in response to the Migration series. Elizabeth Alexander (honoured as the poet at President Obama's first inauguration) introduces the poetry project with a discussion of the poetic quality of Lawrence's work, as well as the impact and legacy of the poets in his orbit including Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.
Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761340327
What did Roald Dahl do at school every week? Which story did he first make up to tell his children? What tool did Roald help invent? Read this book to discover the answers!
Author : Andrew Clements
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442481455
The threat to the Keepers doubles in the fourth Keepers of the School adventure from Andrew Clements, the master of the school story. Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert are determined to save their school from destruction! But just when it seems they’ve finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, they’re caught completely off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and suddenly Benjamin, Jill, and Robert find themselves dodging not one evil janitor, but two. That’s right: Lyman’s got himself a partner. And it quickly becomes clear that Wally, the new guy, is even more corrupt and menacing than Lyman. Luckily, Ben’s team has been growing, too. Plus, thanks to the latest safeguard, they also have a secret fund of millions of dollars. But all the money in Massachusetts isn’t enough to stop Lyman and Wally, not when they’ve come this far, and not when they are just about to put the most harmful part of their plan into play. Could the next safeguard give the Keepers what they need—or has their battle to save the school already been sunk?
Author : C. J. H. MOORE
Publisher : Page Publishing, Inc
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 168456929X
Chris Bell was born on the West Side of Chicago and attended Catholic elementary school on the South Side. He was an unusual and gifted star child who was beyond his mother's understanding. His gang activities kept him out of the regular sequential leap from grade to grade. He joined his first martial arts gang, GGWB (Good Guys Wear Black), just after kindergarten, because he was being bullied everyday by an older kid. He earned his high school diploma by challenging the GED at his mother's behest, after reading books on math, language arts, classics, and Aesop's Fables, which he loved the most, in local libraries day and night, well before his eighteenth birthday, and earned the title "the richest man in the world" by working and fighting in the underground. In his youth, he consolidated the dangerous Black Disciples and Vice Lord gangs of Chicago and all their subdivisions to complete his dream in building another Black Wall Street on the West Side. After he met Madi, Derek Jenkins, and the Stepfather, he moved closer to his dreams. When the Shadow of Knights confiscated sixty tons of drugs and guns off the Chicago streets and placed them on the FBI's doorstep, the ghetto ninjas were a marked group.
Author : Roy Flukinger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0292719728
Beyond his mastery of the craft, however, Henle was driven by a lifelong urge "to show people beauty." "I am obsessed," he said, "by showing them beauty."".
Author : Jeanne Walker Harvey
Publisher : Two Lions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780761458104
A train journey in Romare Beardens childhood, inspired by one of his collage paintings
Author : Denise Patterson
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781612443263
Beautiful Brown Boy speaks to the hearts and minds of young African American boys. It was written to inspire and motivate young boys. It is not easy to raise a strong boy alone, and it takes a village to shape and mold them into great men! They must be reminded that they are loved and valued.