Jacob Lawrence: American Scenes, American Struggles
- ISBN-10
- 0871923025
- ISBN-13
- 9780871923028
- Series
- Jacob Lawrence
- Pages
- 46
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Davis Publications
- Author
- Nancy Shroyer Howard
Description
"Most of Lawrence's works that are covered in this book...such as The Great Migration, or the lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Toussaint L'Ouverture, involve a series of paintings that chronicle African-American history of create a biographical portrait. The approach in this Closer Look Activity Book...sends readers through the pages for answers to multiple questions...Howard offers several paths: Text printed in italics represents direct quotes; red, yellow, and green squares and progressively shrinking typeface indicate projects related to the art. Captions and cartoon bubbles further animate the paintings. The reproductions...are quite good, and many of the questions help readers identify his use of symbols, understand the stories his paintings tell, and learn about his life."--Kirkus Reviews.
