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J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa
Providing an excellent example of why folk artists can be appreciated as carriers of knowledge, even if they are unaware of it, this book could change the ways we understand and appreciate American folk arts. Connecting a sharecropper from Georgia in the Southern United States to a protector and healer in Touba, Senegal, West Africa, the holy city of Mouridism, and the final resting place of its founder, Shaikh Ahmadou Bàmba Mbàcke, it makes an interesting link while examining the cultural aspects of two very different and yet similar paths of life. Historians and art historians alike will find this investigation of African American art and folk culture both interesting and insightful. Not only does this book trace the characteristics of art through the African Diaspora, but it also traces Islam through those same diasporic transportations of colonial exploration and slavery.
Look Up! Images in the Classroom
Too often, the children of the poor do not perceive highly accomplished men and women as realistic role models for themselves. By examining profiles of African American elected officials and other role models in the curriculum presented in Look Up! Images in the Classroom, students may be encouraged to enlarge their visions and embrace the fact that anything the mind can conceive and believe can be achieved. Author Gwendolyn J. Cooke shares the details of Look Up!, a motivational intervention strategy designed to instill pride and foster high academic achievement and socially responsible behavior. It accentuates the positive outcomes of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the civil rights movement. The program exposes economically disadvantaged African American children to appropriate role models through photographic images and selected biographical information of elected officials at each level of government. Lesson plans, hands-on activities, and coordinating website references are included to enhance the students learning experiences to show that success is possible through hard work, perseverance, creativity, and clear planning.
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A Passion for Purpose
In this candid autobiography that seamlessly incorporates political philosophy, the life story of Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Sylvester "Sly" James is told in a fast-paced, entertaining, informative, and authentic style. Elected to the mayor's office in 2011 as a political outsider, James immediately made his mark with his unflinching candor. That tone carries over to this book, as James holds nothing back when detailing the life experiences that shape his core values and beliefs. James strongly believes the only government that runs efficiently is local government, and he details how politics on the civic level should be implemented on the state and federal stages. Although he was elected i...
Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings
Presenting a wealth of new research, analysis and previously unpublished documentation, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of the Italian, Spanish and French Old Master paintings in the collections of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The largest and most significant collection of its kind in the American Southeast, the Ringling's 300-plus Italian, Spanish and French paintings include important works by well-known artists such as Cortona, Piero di Cosimo, Guercino, Rosa, Strozzi, Tiepolo and Veronese; Coypel, Nattier and Raoux; and Cano, Ribera and Velazquez. A rich resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike, this book includes comprehensive entries for each painting with details of technique and materials, provenance, patronage, attribution, date, subject, iconography, conservation history and bibliography, all accompanied by vivid, newly commissioned color photography of each work.
Inscribing Meaning
Reveals Africa's contributions to the history of writing and inscription system worldwide
Das Leben des Gaddo Gaddi, Gherardo Starnina, Lorenzo di Bicci und weiterer Künstler der Prima Parte
Beginnend mit dem Abschluss der gedruckten EDITION GIORGIO VASARI erscheinen die verbleibenden Lebensläufe in elektronischer Form. Damit werden Vasaris Vite (etwa 160 Künstlerbiographien!) komplett in neuer Übersetzung zugänglich sein. Die erste von drei Lieferungen vereint elf frühe Künstler, die im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert den Weg zu den großen Renaissancemeistern ebneten.
Das Leben des Antonio Filarete, Benozzo Gozzoli, Vittore Carpaccio und weiterer Künstler
Beginnend mit dem Abschluss der gedruckten EDITION GIORGIO VASARI erscheinen die verbleibenden Lebensläufe in elektronischer Form. Damit werden Vasaris Vite (etwa 160 Künstlerbiographien!) komplett in neuer Übersetzung zugänglich sein.
