What Makes Art, Art?

Annotation Bibliography Draft

Being a writer: grade 5: teacher's manual

Developmental Studies Center - 2008
I intend to use the chapter on opinion writing to help pace to my two weeks.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, many resources to add

The Framework, National Science Teachers Association

So far I have found no information on color theory or a related lab

Color Theory
Patti Mollica - Walter Foster - 2013
I may use this text to inform myself on color theory to the extent that I can facilitate a lab

Smithsonian.com
Leah Binkovitz
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/at-american-art-a-new-look-
on-how-artists-recorded-the-civil-war-131916472/
How artists recorded the Civil War. The Civil War is one of two historical periods that I may cover
in my curriculum

The other side of color: African American art in the collection of Camille O. and William H.
Cosby Jr.
David C.Driskell - Pomegranate - 2001
- A rich anthology of African American Art, full of images to project for discussion

JACOB LAWRENCE: the migration series

JACOB LAWRENCE - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NY - 2017
- Captures the story of a movement and the beauty of struggle. Could be useful for the discussion of
the role art plays in a movement

The stories of the Mona Lisa: an imaginary museum tale about the history of modern art
Piotr Barsony - Sky Pony - 2013
-A survey of art and its movements, suggests that when art becomes reality it is no longer art.
Blends surrealist art with poetry. discusses the difference between an image and a painting. Will
definitely use this in fragments.

The noisy paint box: the colors and sounds of Kandinsky's abstract art
Barb Rosenstock - Mary GrandPré
-A short, whimsical read aloud, message is: Art should make you feel, art is metaphor, shows what is
abstract art?

Going back home: an artist returns to the South

Michele Wood - Toyomi Igus - Children's Book Press - 1996
- A strong book about an artist and how she uses knowledge and vision to depict her families
beautiful history. symbolism, definite read aloud

Picture This: How Pictures Work

Molly BangGarrett - Chronicle Books - 2016
- What does a picture say with shape, color, placement and context?
How do images play with our emotions? An instructive, psychological picture book, can use in
fragments

Currently looking for more information on color theory and lab design.

I intend on using Newsela and Grammarly for age-appropriate opinion articles about art.

Would like to use the library of Congress for Civil War pictures to examine

Would like to use Duchamp to talk about modern art and ideas.

Need to go into specific detail about what makes art, art, opinion, speculation, supporting an idea,
fact vs opinion, before students can write competently about it.