The visual narratives and abstractions of this preeminent African American artist explore the places where he lived and worked: the rural South, Pittsburgh, Harlem, and the Caribbean. Bearden's central themes—religion, jazz and blues, history, literature, and the authenticities of black life—endured throughout his remarkable career in watercolors, oils, and especially collages and photomontages from the 1940s through the 1980s. This comprehensive packet contains an eighty-page text with related teaching activities. A music CD, Romare Bearden Revealed, features performances by the Branford Marsalis Quartet. 20 slides, 6 color study prints, 5 overhead transparencies, CD, and booklet

This packet discusses artistic movements of the late twentieth century, including abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, process art, neoexpressionism, and postmodernism, with attention to their critical reception and theoretical bases. The packet considers works by twenty-seven painters and sculptors, including Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Martin Puryear, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Rothenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein. Artists' biographies, a glossary, and teaching activities are also provided.
40 slides, 6 color study prints, timeline, and booklet

This encyclopedic reference contains more than 1,500 paintings and sculpture by more than 600 artists in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art. High-quality color images and details permit close study of the works. Indexes allow the works to be searched thematically by author or period. Also included are biographies of individual artists, a dictionary of terms, and regional maps.