Understanding History and Society through Images, 1776-1914

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.01.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Tableaux Vivants
  5. The Art And Artists
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Resources
  9. Appendix
  10. Notes

Dramatizing Art: Tableaux Vivants

Carol P. Boynton

Published September 2014

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Resources

Bagneris, Mia L. Agostino Brunias: Capturing the Caribbean. London, UK, 2010.

Blizzard, Gladys S. Enjoying Art with Children. Watertown, Mass.: Charlesbridge, 2006.

Efland, Arthur. Art and Cognition: Integrating the Visual Arts in the Curriculum. New York: Teachers College Press;, 2002.

Elbert, Monika. Striking a Historical Pose: Antebellum Tableaux Vivants, "Godey's" Illustrations, and Margaret Fuller's Heroines. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 235-275

Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind : The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Basic Books, 1985.

Glassberg, David. American Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century, 1990.

Hale, Sarah Josepha. Review of Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants, Godey's Lady 's Book and Magazine, May 1860.

Ingamells, John. Phillipe Mercier, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Vol. 37, 2004. 856-857

Lewis, Robert. Tableaux vivants: Parlor Theatrical in Victorian America, Revue française d'études américaines, No. 36, LES LIEUX DE LA VIE MÉRICAINE, Avril 88.

Murphy, Sharon. "Art Museum Teaching." Art Museum Teaching. http://artmuseumteaching.com/ (accessed July 14, 2014).

Saccardi, Marianne. Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children. North Haven, Conn.: Linnet Professional Publications, 1997.

Smith, Nora Archibald. Plays, Pantomimes and Tableaux for Children,. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co., 1917.

Tobin, Beth Fawkes. Taxonomy and Agency in Brunias's West Indian Subjects, Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting, Durham NC: Duke UP 1999.

Tortello, Rebecca. Tableaux Vivants in the Literature Classroom, The Reading Teacher, Volume 58, No. 2, November 2011.

Vaughn, William. British Painting: The Golden Age, Thames and Hudson, 1999.

Webster, Mary. Francis Wheatley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Vol. 58, 2004.

Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.. Deepening Comprehension with Action Strategies: Role Plays, Text-Structure Tableaux, Talking Statues, and Other Enactment Techniques that Engage Students with Text. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Scholastic, 2012.

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