Landscape, Art, and Ecology

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 24.01.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction – How did we get here?
  2. Unit Overview
  3. Philosophy of Art Instruction and Demographics
  4. Background and Cross Curricular Approach
  5. Content and Learning Objectives: A Brief History of ‘Modern’ Pittsburgh
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Appendix on Implementing Pennsylvania Arts Standards
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography

Traces of the Past: From Landscape to Cityscape

Christopher Snyder

Published September 2024

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Bibliography

Delano, Jack. The Long Stairway, Pittsburgh. 1940. Photograph. Library of Congress, January 1, 1940.

Edwards, Betty. 1989. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher.

Gilbert, Elizabeth. 2015. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Thorndike Press.

Muller, Edward K., and Rob Ruck. 2023. Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750 - 1920. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

"National Register of Historic Places." National Parks Services National Register of Historic Places. Accessed July 16, 2024. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm.

O'Neill, Brian. 2009. The Paris of Appalachia: Pittsburgh in the Twenty-first Century. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press.

"Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV." American Lung Association: State of the Air. American Lung Association, Accessed July 16, 2024. https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-rankings/msas/pittsburgh-new-castle-weirton-pa-oh-wv.

Ritchhart, Ron. 2015. Creating Cultures of Thinking. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Rooney, Dan, and Carol Peterson. 2013. Allegheny City: A History of Pittsburgh's North Side. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]. (1980, January 1). Trains, snakes, and guitars: The collages of Romare Bearden [Video]. SFMOMA. https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/trains-snakes-and-guitars-the-collages-of-romare-bearden/

Schmidt Campbell, M. (2018). An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden. Oxford University Press.

Siegel, J. (1966, September 1). Why Spiral: Remembering the Black Arts Movement. ARTnews, 65(5).

Snyder, Christopher. Looking up 5th Avenue from Liberty Avenue at 11:00 a.M. November 2020. 2020. Photograph. Screenshot of Google Maps Street View, November 1, 2020.

Toker, Franklin. 2009. Pittsburgh: A New Portrait. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Toker, Franklin. 1986. Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait. University Park, State College, PA: Pennsylvanian State University Press.

Unknown (1997). Pittsburgh Footprint Map 1995-2017 [Photograph]. Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections.

Unknown. Looking up 5th Avenue from Liberty Avenue at 11:00 a.M. on November 5, 1945. 1945. Photograph. Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections, November 5, 1945.

Washington, G. (1754). George Washington's Hand Drawn Map of the Forks of the Ohio, 1754 [Photograph]. The George Washington Atlas.

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