- Grade Levels:
- 5-9
- Length:
- 92 minutes
- Taping Rights:
- School year
- Videocassette:
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- Print Materials:
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- Web Site:
- Project VIEW
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For more than 65 years, painter Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was both an impassioned observer and a chronicler of the struggle for freedom and justice by black Americans. His works draw on subjects from the Civil War to the great African-American migration from the rural South to the urban North in the first decades of the 20th century to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s. The paintings explore various aspects of the African-American experience, communicate Lawrence's reflections on American culture, and make visible the realities of race and racial differences in the process of Americanization.
In this 90-minute documentary, curators at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City take students through an exhibition of Lawrence's works. As they examine paintings and drawings from throughout his career, they explore both his artistic evolution and experimentation and the historical events reflected in the works.
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