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Pride of Place: New Haven Material and Visual Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.03.05

Unit Guide

Discovering New Haven’s History of Public Art

Melissa Sands

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Bibliography

Abramowitz, Jack Rodrigo de Triana: “The Forgotten Lookout”

An excerpt from:THEY SAILED WITH COLUMBUS, www.eductrak.com/pdf/triana.pdf , accessed July 19, 2008

Cahn, Annabelle Simon ‘The Quality of Life in Connecticut: An Introduction to Connecticut Cultural Programs under Federal Patronage, 1933-1942. The Arts with Emphasis on New Haven’ Journal of the New Haven Historical Society Vol. 32 / No 2 Spring 1985

Harris, Jonathan, Federal Art and National Culture the Politics of Identity in New Deal America (Cambridge University Press 1995)

Kwon, Miwon, One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Location Identity , (The MIT Press 2002)

Park, Marlene and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal (Temple University Press1984)

Senie, Harriet F. and Sally Webster, eds., Critical Issues in Public Art , (HarperCollins Publishers Inc.1992)

Swartz, Robert J. and Sandra Parks , Infusing the Teaching of Critical and Creative Thinking Into Content Instruction: A Lesson Design Handbook For the Elementary Grades , (Critical Thinking Books & Software 1994)

Wetenball, John ‘A Brief History of Percent-for-Art in America’ City of New Haven Cultural Affairs Office

Web Resources

Artist Websites

http://www.josebuscaglia.com/visited July 27 2008 a website about Jose Buscaglia and his art

http://www.karenrossi.com/ visited July 27, 2008 a website about Karen Rossi and her art

http://www.awaka-inc.com/ visited July 29, 2008 Biography of Douglas Kornfeld and his artwork

Websites for background information on the artwork and the History it reflects

http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/EconomicDevelopment/Percentforart/percentintro.asp Visited July 27, 2008 City of /new Haven description of their Percent for Art program

http://www.nhps.net/press/SchoolConstruction.asp?NewsID={E2C2720D-A9EA-4E12-881B-81B882D8611F} visited July 27, 2008New Haven Public School website page concerning the construction of Christopher Columbus Family Academy

http://www.hogriver.org/issues/v05n01/art.htm visited July 27, 2008Hog River Journal article on the Federal Art Project in New Haven

http://www.ctheritage.org/encyclopedia/topicalsurveys/immigration.htm visited July 27, 2008 this is a site about immigration in Connecticut

http://www.nhpt.org/History%20Pages/1825_1865.htm visited July 27 , 2008 a website by the New Haven Preservation trust concerning the growth of oystering

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/columbus.html visited July,27 2008 a website explaining the European voyages of exploration

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/abl/etext/oldnew/oldnew.html visited July 27, 2008 a website containing STORIES OF OLD NEW HAVEN [ILLUSTRATED] By Ernest H. Baldwin, Ph. D. Formerly Instructor in History, Hill House High School, New Haven, Conn., and Lecturer in History, Yale University, C. A. HACK AND SON, PUBLISHERS TAUNTON, MASS, U.S.A.

http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Mayor/History_New_Haven.asp visited July 29, 2008 City of New Haven, Government Office of the Mayor brief history of New Haven, Native Americans and The Puritan Settlement

http://www.colonialwarsct.org/1660.htm visited July 27, 2008 a website from The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut

http://www.nhpt.org/History%20Pages/1825_1865.htm visited July 27, 2008 a website by the New Haven Preservation trust concerning the growth of oystering

http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/EconomicDevelopment/Percentforart/seaman.asp visited July, 27 2008 this web address will lead you to New Havens Percent for Art disruption of the Seamen Sculpture

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