The Trail West : Exploring History Through Art (Picture That) - Hardcover

Galford, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1587284421 ISBN 13: 9781587284427

Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing Llc, 2004

Synopsis

The popular Picture That! series features fine-art reproductions to explore history! These books are favorites of art and history lovers alike. High quality art reproductions with sidebars and historical info and spotlights on details of paintings are used to impart information in an engaging and browsable format. This book is as at home on a coffee table as it is on a library shelf.

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About the Author:

Alex Martin is a prolific writer of both fiction and nonfiction works. His adult novel The General Interruptor won the Betty Trask Prize in 1988, and he has written several children's novels including Zeus Perkins, Time Traveller (Hodder, 1998). He has selected and edited various fiction collections, including Modern Plays and Modern Novels (Prentice Hall/Phoenix 1995). His nonfiction books include Greece (Simple Guides, 1995) and Daily Life in the Holy Land at the Time of Jesus (Reader's Digest 1995).

From Booklist:

Reviewed with Alex Martin's Knights & Castles.

Gr. 5-8. For years, scholars have examined old paintings seeking to learn more about historical times and places. These books from the Picture That series invite students to do the same, using pictures that represent late medieval life in Europe and nineteenth-century western expansion in the U.S. With a spacious format and excellent reproduction of art, the books introduce the paintings and talk about what they reveal before zooming in on distinctive details, which are enlarged and discussed in captions. In Knights, the first double-page spread of the section "On the Battlefield" discusses Paolo Uccello's painting The Battle of San Romano; the second spread focuses on small sections of the painting illustrating fifteenth-century armor, the crossbow, the mace, the battle horse, and hand-to-hand fighting. In The Trail West, the section called "A Sacred Festival" presents Kiowa artist Silver Horn's The Camp Circle--Measuring the Pole, followed by a spread explaining five details from the picture. Appendixes include a glossary, a time line, and lists of books and Internet sites. Recommended particularly for visual learners. Carolyn Phelan
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About this edition

• Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing Llc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1587284421
• ISBN 13: 9781587284427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64