Each curriculum contains an introductory essay, four overhead transparencies (or six color slides) of art-works with comprehensive descriptions, lesson plans for the classroom, and more. Each costs $10; for orders of five or more the cost is reduced to $7 each. Materials may be purchased by mail using the Curriculum Material Order Form.

Africa

Art from Zaire
Focusing on the museum's Bob and Lee Bronson Collection of Zaireian art, this packet explores the country's traditional art as well as its history, land, and people. Slides included are of a Kongo Ba Boma stone funerary monument, a Yombe ruler's ivory scepter, a Kwilu Pende carved wooden stool, a Lele carved wooden drinking cup, a Yaka mask used in initiation ceremonies, and a Kuba textile. (10/95)

Music for the Eyes: The Fine Art of African Musical Instruments
Explore African musical instruments and discover what they are made of, why they are made, and how instruments can be music for the eyes as well as the ears. Most people have heard the sound of African drums, but trumpets, harps, and thumb pianos are just as important. Slides of each of these instruments are included in this packet. (2/00)

African Art
This packet, which focuses on the collection of African art at LACMA, introduces a system for understanding African art and explores the cultural context of each of the artworks. Includes slides of an Ifa divination tray, Zulu body ornaments, a Benin nobleman plaque, an Asante kente cloth, a Chokwe mask, and a Bamana antelope headdress. (10/97)

Ancestors: Art and the Afterlife
In almost all parts of Africa, the living and the ancestors work together to make life and the afterlife better. The living have the ability to communicate with the ancestors, make requests of them, and offer them substances that will make the ancestors’ experience in the afterlife more comfortable. This packet explores ancient Egyptian and contemporary African practices through six color slides of works of art: an Egyptian mummy board and offering table, a Ghanaian “fantasy” fish coffin, a Chokwe problem-solving basket, a Yombe hunting nkisi, and a Yoruba Engun society masquerade costume. (11/98)

Roy DeCarava: A Photography Retrospective
Roy DeCarava, known as one of the leading American photographers of his generation, became the first African American photographer to be awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. The six slides in this packet capture street and domestic scenes in Harlem, a civil rights march on Washington, D.C., and jazz scenes of the 1960s. (1/97)

The Figure in American Sculpture: A Question of Modernity
The human figure was the primary vehicle for artistic expression and experimentation among American sculptors in the first forty years of the twentieth century. Included in the packet are slides that portray scenes from everyday life and reveal the influences of multicultural sources as well as European avant-garde artistic movements. Artists represented are Charles Haag, Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Saul Baizerman, Nancy Prophet, Alexander Archipenko, and John Flannagan. (3/95)

Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000
California’s image is familiar around the world, yet the state’s artistic tradition remains far less widely known. The exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000 examined aspects of this tradition by exploring how the arts have shaped, supported, complicated, and challenged popular conceptions and mythologies of the state during the twentieth century. The following our packets, each containing four overhead transparencies, focus on the exhibition.

1. California Works: Art, Design, and Industry
This packet explores California’s role in the aerospace and automotive industries and the influence of industrial design on the arts. Transparencies include the official program for the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration, 1936; a cover of Pacific Factory Magazine, 1943; Charles Sheeler’s 1957 oil painting California Industrial; and Judy Chicago’s 1964 Car Hood. (12/00)

2. California Dreaming: Artists and the Myth of California
This packet examines how artists responded to myths of California's history, Hollywood glamour, beach culture, and the state's natural beauty. Transparencies of four photographs include The Santa Barbara Mission, 1920; Make-Up, by Will Connell, 1937; Muscle Beach, by Max Yavno, 1947; and Joel Sternfeld’s After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California, 1979. (1/01)

3. California Communities: Art, Civil Rights, and Cultural Politics
Learn how artists addressed issues of cultural diversity and civil rights in California and how they were inspired by the events of their time. Transparencies include The New Order, 1996 screen print by Ricardo Duffy; Injustice Case, 1970 bodyprint by David Hammons; Taken by Surprise, watercolor of Los Angeles’s Chinatown by Arthur Burnside Dodge; and the photograph Person Being Evicted from Her House at Chavez Ravine, May 8, 1959. (2/01)

4. Made in California: NOW: Kids, Creativity, and Contemporary Art
Featuring eleven contemporary artists' projects, Made in California: NOW was the inaugural exhibition of LACMALab, a research and development unit within the museum whose goal was to test and apply experimental approaches to exhibitions. Made in California: NOW might not be what you would expect to see at a museum—a swing set, a roomful of pillows, a ship, and a set of rambunctious rubber boots were just some of the features of this contemporary art exhibition. This packet explores the artists’ projects and includes four color slides. (10/00)

Picturing Los Angeles
Depictions of Los Angeles in popular culture have often been characterized by extremes. This packet examines the ways in which six Los Angeles artists (William Henry Jackson, Millard Sheets, Helen Lundeberg, Judy Fiskin, Carlos Almaraz, and John Humble) have portrayed the city and considers how their works relate to the centuries-old tradition of landscape painting. (1/98)

Three Centuries of American Furniture
This packet explores the changing forms and styles in American furniture from the colonial period to the present, addressing the artistry in American furniture and the shifting demands that art and utility have had on design. Slides of the following objects are included in the packet: a Queen Anne–style high chest, a rococo side chair, an Empire card table, a Herter Brothers fall-front desk, George Nelson's Kangaroo Chair (c. 1956), and glass artist Thermond Statom's Chair (1987). (4/95)

Westward Expansion through the Eyes of American Artists
The nineteenth century marked a turning point for the American West, as droves of people arrived from the East seeking their fortunes and a freer way of life. For many settlers and tourists, the propelling force to relocate or visit sights unseen came from artists' images of rich farmland, uncharted wilderness, and monumental landscapes. The six slides are from the museum's permanent collection of American art. (5/97)

A National Icon: Images of George Washington
George Washington is perhaps our nation’s best-known historical figure. This teacher packet explores the imagery of George Washington and other American symbols, and poses these questions: How do American symbols and the image of George Washington express our cultural identity? In studying various types of art, created at different historic moments, can we determine continuities and changes in this identity? Is this type of American imagery still potent today? Color transparencies include: Gilbert Stuart's Lansdowne portrait George Washington, Randall Palmer's The Young Artist, Audrey Flack's Fourth of July Still Life, and an early nineteenth-century chair. (11/02)*

Visions of the Land: The Photographs of Ansel Adams
Photographer Ansel Adams had a great love for the natural world, spending much of his time exploring and documenting the continental United States, particularly California’s scenic Yosemite Valley and the High Sierra. As a photographer of the landscape—its large vistas as well as its intimate details—Adams came to know the region well. What do Adams’s photographs tell us about the West? What do they tell us about nature? How have his photographs influenced generations of photographers and visitors to the western United States? These questions and more are explored in this packet created in conjunction with the exhibition Ansel Adams at 100. Transparencies of Adams’s photographs include: Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California; Trailside, near Juneau, Alaska; El Capitan, Merced River, against Sun, Yosemite Valley, California; and Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958–1960 and 1976 prints. (02/03)*

An Artist Abroad: John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent, one of the most famous American painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and best known for his portraits of aristocratic and influential women and men, spent much of his career in Europe. His watercolors and oil paintings of tourist spots and quieter locales in Italy provide an intimate view of the artist and his interests. Created in conjunction with the exhibition Sargent in Italy, this teacher’s packet explores Sargent’s dual roles: as an American painter of formal portraits and as an expatriate in Italy who, retaining a strong and long-lasting association with the land of his birth, explored subjects of more personal interest. Curriculum connections to the writings of Henry James and Edith Wharton are included. Color transparencies include: Portrait of Mrs. Edward L. Davis and Her Son, Livingston Davis, Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara, Mountain Fire, and Scuola di San Rocco. (03/03)*

American Impressionism and Realism
Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two schools of American painters, the impressionists and subsequently the realists, responded to the many social, cultural, and economic changes that marked the period. Considered together, these schools of art offer a revealing picture of American life at the dawn of the modern age. Includes slides of paintings by impressionists Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Edmund Tarbell, and realists Robert Henri, Everett Shinn, and George Bellows. (5/95)

Modern Urban America: Realism and Abstraction
How do artists portray the social realities of their time? In the first decades of the twentieth century, a group of American painters collectively known as the Ashcan School painted the living and working conditions surrounding them. Their paintings depict the lives of the working classes, common pleasures of entertainment, and the hustle of American urban life. Following the Ashcan School’s sensibilities but incorporating tenets of European Modernism, Stuart Davis conveyed the vibrant, visual experience of New York City in his more abstract paintings of the 1920s through 1950s. Color transparencies include George Bellows's Cliff Dwellers, Rinaldo Cuneo's The Embarcadero at Night, Millard Sheets's Angel's Flight, and Stuart Davis's Premiere. (12/03)*

Beyond the Myth of California
Study California history through works of art that reflect the diverse geographic and social characteristics of the state. Explore artworks that romanticize the physical setting of California and assemblages made of found objects that present unique views of the state. (1/08)*

Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past
The societies of Ancient West Mexico—a region of mountains and basins between the canyon of Rio Santiago and the Pacific Coast, now constituting parts of the Mexican states of Nayarit, Jalisco, and Colima—have long seemed a world apart in comparison to the great Mesoamerican civilizations of the Maya and Aztecs. Recent archaeological discoveries in West Mexico have produced evidence of monumental ceremonial centers, intricate agricultural and economic systems, and areas of dense population. This packet explores the lively, expressive earthenware forms created by ancient West Mexican artisans. (1/99)

Narratives and Symbols in Latin American Art
Drawing from pre-Columbian art to contemporary icons and events, a number of Latin American artists have synthesized international art movements while simultaneously incorporating local influences into their work. Inspired by symbols and stories, these artworks often reference or reconsider social and political events. While studying diverse examples in LACMA’s Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Latin American Art, learn about the lives of these artists, the historical contexts of their works, and the symbolic language that influenced them. Color transparencies include a Peruvian textile c. 600–850, Carlos Mérida's Structural Study for a Mural, Joaquín Torres-Garcia's Construction with White Line, and Enrique Chagoya's Uprising of the Spirit. (04/04)*

The Arts in Latin America, 1492–1820
In what ways are encounters between indigenous and European cultures in colonial Latin America reflected in works of art? Explore the painting, sculpture, ceramics, and textiles created by European, indigenous, and mestizo artists that illustrate artistic styles throughout the region. (10/07)*

Artistic Heritage: Exploring Latin American and Chicano Art
In what ways can the artistic heritage of Latin America inspire or inform modern and contemporary artworks? What shared forms and subjects are found in works by Latin American and Chicano artists? Consider the personal, social, and cultural histories reflected in works by artists Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Almaraz, and Patssi Valdez. LACMA's collection of Latin American art and artworks from Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.: Selections from the Cheech Marin Collection are highlighted. This packet also contains a CD of downloadable images and text. (09/08)*

From the Lands of the Silk Road: Ancient Art from the Shumei Family Collection
This packet includes slides of a third-millennium Bactrian silver cup, an eighteenth-century BCE Egyptian wooden statuette, a twelfth- to eleventh-century BCE Iranian gold goblet with bulls, a first-century Roman garden fresco, a sixth-century Chinese relief panel from a mortuary couch, and a sixteenth-century Iranian carpet. Apart from their significance as exquisitely crafted works of art, the objects featured are valued today for what they can tell us about the past. (12/96)

The Islamic World: Courtly and Sacred Art
From a western perspective, Islamic art is perhaps the most accessible manifestation of a complex and often enigmatic civilization. Through its brilliant use of color and its superb balance between design and form, Islamic art creates an immediate visual impact. Its strong aesthetic appeal transcends distances in time and space, as well as differences in language, culture, and creed. A general introduction to Islamic art, this packet provides examples from the museum's collection, and includes works from southern North Africa to Central Asia, from the ninth through the sixteenth centuries. (3/98)

Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Collection, Istanbul
Calligraphy is an art form of exquisite beauty that is designed to be understood through its format as well as its written meaning. This packet focuses on calligraphic works from the largest and longest-lived empire of the Islamic world, the Ottoman Empire. The six slides provide an introduction to some of the diverse forms of Islamic calligraphy. (3/99)

Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Tutankhamen
Akhenaten built the city of Amarna where he set out to change the practice of Egyptian religion and the time-honored conventions of art. This packet focuses on this dramatic time known as the “Amarna Period” (1353–1336 BCE) and includes slides of Akhenaten and his wife Nefertiti, who was believed to have assumed power for a period after Akhenaten’s death. Also included are slides of various artifacts, which give insight to the practices and beliefs of Egyptians during the Amarna period. (4/00)

The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia
The name "Genghis Khan" traditionally brings to mind visions of great battles and the vast conquest of territory. What may not be familiar, however, is the explosion of artistic innovation and East–West contacts in the century following Genghis Khan’s reign. Art became a form of political expression and artistic ideas and themes were transmitted across borders. From vivid manuscript illustrations to the sumptuous decorative arts that comprise the exhibition The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256–1353, the complex cultural, political, social, and religious fabric of Mongol Eurasia are explored. Color transparencies include: illustrated manuscript pages, ceramic tiles, and tapestry roundels. (05/03)*

Discovering Ancient Pompeii
Pompeii, Herculaneum and nearby small towns were deeply buried under ash and mud following the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. These ancient towns have been a source of fascination and curiosity ever since. Who were the people of Pompeii? How did they live? This packet reveals the sophisticated achievements of the people of ancient Pompeii through a wide variety of works, from highly detailed wall frescoes to objects of daily life. (11/99)

Heroes and Myths in Ancient Art
Many ancient objects in various media convey information about important people and stories within their civilizations, often illustrating ancient myths, important beliefs, and details about powerful individuals. These curriculum materials explore the representations of people and their stories in the art of ancient Assyria, Greece, Rome, and China. Color transparencies included. (12/04)*

The Art of Korea: Selections from the Permanent Collection
This teacher’s packet highlights six important objects from the collection: a lacquer box inlaid with mother-of-pearl, a bronze sculpture of a seated priest, an altar attendant made of wood, a porcelain jar with dragon and clouds, an expressive wooden mask, and the fine portrait painting of a revered Korean scholar. This diverse group of objects dating from the Choson dynasty (1392–1910) represents the rich culture and age-old traditions of Korea and features LACMA’s collection of Korean art, the finest and most comprehensive collection outside Asia. (3/00)

Flora and Fauna: Nature in Japanese Art
This packet explores four nature-inspired pieces in LACMA’s collection of Japanese art. Transparencies include: a wooden Shinto sculpture in the shape of a seated fox, a ceramic hanging flower vase in the form of a quiver, two folding screens titled Puppies Among Bamboo in the Snow and Landscape in Snow, and Hokusai’s famous woodblock print The Great Wave of Kanagawa, from his series Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji. (5/01)

Chinese Art
The six works of Chinese art illustrated in this packet are not meant to be representative of the whole of Chinese history, but rather to cast light on some of the key moments when art achieved special recognition for its design, technique, and relationship to contemporary cultural practices. The six slides include a bronze vessel, a lacquer cosmetic box, a funerary sculpture of a chimera, a Bodhisattva, a porcelain vase, and a handscroll of ink and paper. (2/98)

From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textiles of Bhutan
Textiles are deeply embedded in the culture, history, and mythology of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. They are used for clothing, various kinds of containers, and covers. They are given as gifts to mark important social occasions and as forms of tribute and payment. Textiles also constitute an essential part of Buddhist rituals and are a means of establishing social identity. The slide set includes examples of both ceremonial and everyday objects and garments. (3/96)

Treasures in Stone and Bronze: Discovering the Sculpture of India and Greater South Asia
LACMA’s collection of South Asian sculpture, one of the finest collections in the country, features artwork from three of the most important religious traditions in India: Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. This packet provides an excellent introduction to the art, history, and major religions of India. The four color transparencies include sculptures of The Buddha Sakyamuni, Dancing Ganesa, Siva as Lord of the Dance, and The Goddess Sarasvati. (4/01)

Images of a World: Treasures of Indian and South Asian Painting
Discover the glowing colors, delicate geometric and floral patterns, and lively stories that make Indian and South Asian paintings some of the best-loved treasures of the museum. This packet explores portraits, court paintings and manuscript illustrations from LACMA's collection and includes four color transparencies. (3/02)*

Golden Robes and Demon Masks: The Arts of Japan’s Noh and Kyogen Theater
Discover two of the most ancient and influential forms of Japanese theater through evocative carved wood masks, woven silk and gold costumes, painted screens, and lacquered instruments. Noh, a form of musical dance-drama originating in the fourteenth century, is Japan's oldest continuing professional theater. Lighthearted comic plays called kyogen are performed in between noh plays as a counterpart to the solemn elegance of noh. The teacher's packet poses the questions: What can we learn about Japanese culture through these objects? How have noh and kyogen influenced art and theater around the world? Four color transparencies included. (12/02) *

Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century
In the eighteenth century a uniquely Korean identity emerged in the arts. This packet explores some of the new forms that arose during this period as well as the general political and cultural influences from which they grew. Derived from the special exhibition Korean Arts of the Eighteenth Century: Splendor and Simplicity, the packet includes slides of a royal Sun, Moon, and Five Peaks screen and a large white porcelain jar as well as artwork by Yun Duso, Kang Sehwang, Kim Duksin, and Sin Yunbok. (6/94)

The Art of Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is a region distinguished by great cultural and physical diversity encompassing dozens of countries, ten major religions and numerous sects, and all types of climates and levels of social development. This packet introduces a variety of objects from Southeast Asia including a kettledrum top from Vietnam, a gilt metal Buddha from Thailand, stone sculptures of the Hindu deities Durga from Java and Vishnu from Vietnam, and a wooden crowned Buddha and manuscript page from Burma. (12/98)

Images of Compassion: Buddhist Art and Practice
LACMA has many world-class examples of Buddhist sculptures, paintings, and ritual objects. Throughout Asia there are striking similarities among Buddhist images and what they mean, but also significant differences that illustrate the ways Buddhism changed as it spread. These curriculum materials explore the symbols and gestures found in Buddhist art and the role of visual images in meditation. Color transparencies include Buddhist sculptures from Tibet, China, and Pakistan, and a Japanese painted scroll by Hakuin Ekaku. (11/03)*

Japonism in Art and Fashion
American and European artists and designers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were influenced by the arts of Japan. Created in conjunction with the exhibition Japonism in Fashion: The Influence of Japan on Western Dress, this packet examines that trend through a selection of Japanese and Western works of art. (5/98)

A Century of Fashion: Women's Clothing and History, 1900–2000
The twentieth century witnessed exceptionally rapid and radical changes in women's dress. How did changing styles mirror changing roles for women in society? What can we learn about social and historical transformations through fashion? These questions and more are explored in this packet highlighting works from the LACMA exhibition of the same name. Four color transparencies include a custom-made dress from the eighteenth century, a 1920s evening dress, a 1940s Gilbert Adrian suit, and a contemporary fabric sculpture. (4/02)*

Across the Seas: Textiles and the Meeting of Cultures
Contact and exchange among cultures have been central to the evolution of costume and textile design and production throughout history. This packet explores ways in which cultural contact has influenced dress and textiles around the world, with particular emphasis on Europe and Asia. The six slides represent textiles and costumes from Peru, Iran, Spain, Tibet, Mali, and Italy. (1/95)

Gold Boxes of the Gilbert Collection
The exhibition Gold Boxes from the Collection of Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert provides unusually interesting images of supremely crafted snuff boxes for this packet. Ladies and gentlemen of the eighteenth century carried these rich, elegant boxes; as fashion changed, so did the form and decoration of these extravagant trinkets. (1/92)

Italian Panel Painting of the Early Renaissance
For Italians of the early Renaissance, religious images embodied a power and significance we find hard to fathom today. This packet, devoted to Italian panel paintings in LACMA's permanent collection, provides a historical context for this art form and discusses its evolution, its features and iconography, materials and processes, and the artists and patrons of the period. Artists represented are Paolo Veneziano, Luca di Tomme, Neri di Bicci, Jacopo Bellini, Bernardo Rosselli, and the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany. (1/96)

Van Gogh’s Van Goghs
Based on the special exhibition Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, this teacher's packet explores Van Gogh’s artistic journey through his images. The six color slides include The Potato Eaters (1885), Self-Portrait as an Artist (1888), Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1888), The Bedroom (1888), A Pair of Leather Clogs (1888), and Wheatfield with Crows (1890). (2/99)

The Painter’s Palette: Artists in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Europe in the seventeenth century was a place of dramatic contrasts—religious, political, and business changes marked the period—yet artists flourished. Working in a range of popular subjects from still lifes, landscape paintings, biblical stories, and portraits, artists of the Baroque period (as the seventeenth century was known) pursued an interest in naturalism. Through their choice of colors and application of paint, they strove to accurately depict the physical appearance of nature and the light that brought these details to life. Color transparencies include works by David Teniers the Younger and Jan Davidsz de Heem, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, and Claude Gellee, called Le Lorrain. (11/01)*

Art of the Middle Ages
This packet explores the civilization of the Middle Ages through the museum's collection of medieval art. Comprising Romanesque and Gothic objects created during the latter part of the Middle Ages, the slide set includes a carved Spanish capital, an aquamanile in the shape of a lion, part of a stained glass window from a French cathedral, a sculpture of the Virgin and Child, a triptych with scenes of the life of Saint George, and a carved-bone casket from the Embriachi workshop in Venice. (2/97)

Royal and Ecclesiastical Art
Prior to the eighteenth century, most European art was commissioned by royal patrons or the Christian church. This teacher's packet explores the significant influence of royal and ecclesiastical powers on art during this period. Six color slides include a sixteenth-century stained glass window, a sixteenth-century tomb effigy, a seventeenth-century portrait of Louis XIII of France, a seventeenth-century portrait of Cardinal Ubaldini by Guido Reni, and eighteenth-century royal church gates from the Ukraine. (5/94)

Modern & Contemporary Art

The Body in Twentieth-Century Art
The human figure has been a primary subject throughout art history. In the twentieth century the body became a vehicle for artistic experimentation. This packet examines the varied and changing approaches to the body as seen in works by Alexandra Exter, Edward Kienholz, Henri Matisse, Annette Messanger, Issey Miyake, and Liz Young. (4/98)

Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler
During the years of National Socialist (Nazi) rule, artists and intellectuals found themselves under attack for racial, political, and cultural reasons. For many artists, migration within Europe and to America became the only possible choice. Based on the exhibition Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, this packet examines the conditions that emigres encountered and how the experience of exile affected their work and careers. Slides include artwork by Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, Jacques Lipchitz, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. (3/97)

"Ghost in the Shell": Photography and the Human Soul,
1850–2000
Since the invention of photography in the mid-1800s, artists have been interested in the potential of the camera to capture the human countenance—and spirit—on film. Explore why artists like Andy Warhol, Dorothea Lange, and Cindy Sherman chose to make images of the human face. What can images tell us about representation and identity? How can photographs reveal the "ghost," or invisible soul, housed inside the physical "shell" of the body or face? (12/99)

David Hockney: A Drawings Retrospective
This packet is devoted to one of the most celebrated artists of the twentieth century, for whom drawing is both an end in itself and a means of preparing to work in other media. Through his drawings Hockney reveals his impressive breadth of interests and artistic styles. Instead of slides, this packet includes small color reproductions of places, portraits, and abstractions. (4/96)

Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso is often described as one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential artists. Based on the exhibition Picasso: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, this packet features examples of painting and sculpture by Picasso and includes works from the collections of both LACMA and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. (10/98)

The Art of Diego Rivera
This packet explores the life and lesser-known work of the beloved Mexican artist Diego Rivera. From the friendships he formed in Europe while studying art, to his involvement in cubism and the creation of Mexican modernism, to his mural work, and more—this packet is full of interesting details from Rivera’s artistic career. Color transparencies of Still Life with Bread and Fruit, Flower Day, Portrait of John Dunbar, and Portrait of Frida Kahlo from LACMA’s Bernard and Edith Lewin Latin American Art Galleries are included. (1/02)*

Utopian Visions: Early Twentieth-Century European Art and Architecture
The idea of utopia exists in every culture, arising out of shared dreams and common goals for the future. In Germany during the tumultuous World War I era, utopian ideals sustained artists, architects, and filmmakers in their belief that art has the power to shape a better world. Based on the exhibition Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy, this packet features the art of Erich Heckel, Ludwig Meidner, Paul Gosch, Lyonel Feininger, Hannah Hoch, and Erich Kettelhut. (11/93)

Exchange and Transformation: Artists in Central Europe,
1910–1930
The early decades of the twentieth century were times of dynamic change in the art world of Central Europe. Artists exchanged ideas across national borders, developed new art forms (such as typography, photography, and film), and debated the role of art in politics and society. Four color transparencies include an oil painting by Vincenc Benes, a collage and book design by Karel Teige, and a steel sculpture by Katarzyna Kobro. (5/02)*

Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: Three Centuries of French Painting
Produced in conjunction with the exhibition Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow, this curriculum studies the work of artists Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Henri Matisse. Explore the development of different styles, from seventeenth-century painting to the impressionists’ use of broken brush strokes. Examine changes in subject matter and attitudes toward art, with a range encompassing depictions of mythological scenes and historical events to the development of cubism. Color transparencies include Lorrain's The Abduction of Europa, Monet's White Water Lilies, Pissarro's L'Avenue de l'Opéra, Snow, and Morning, and Matisse's Goldfish. (10/03)*

New Visions: Photography of the 1950s and 1960s
After World War II, photographers began exploring new ways of picturing life in the United States and abroad. Chroniclers of the social scene, they favored straight images, often photographing the people and buildings around them. These images reconsidered national emblems, the individual human spirit, and highlighted new challenges for society. In conjunction with the retrospective Diane Arbus Revelations, this curriculum examines her unique and influential exploration of everyday life. In addition to studying Arbus’s work, learn about some of her contemporaries, including Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, who, like Arbus, created new visions in photography. (03/04)*

Grids, Patterns, and Geometric Form in Art, 1940s–1970s
In the decades following World War II, many vanguard artists in Europe, North America, and South America began experimenting with radically simplified forms and working with predetermined systems based on sequence or repetition. These materials focus on the use of geometric form and systematic strategies in international art during this period. Color transparencies include Josef Albers's Homage to the Square, Cildo Meireles's Webs of Liberty, Bernd and Hilla Becher's Typology of Water Towers, and a Sol LeWitt wall drawing. (9/04)

Modern Art and Its Sources: The Eye of Duncan Phillips
In conjunction with the special exhibition Renoir to Matisse: The Eye of Duncan Phillips, these curriculum materials examine the development of modern art as understood and cultivated by one of the most important and engaged collectors in American history. Investigate the different visual languages created and refined by leading modern artists. Color transparencies include Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party, Degas's Dancers at the Bar, Klee's Cathedral, and Picasso's Bullfight. (11/04)

The Posters of Robert Rauschenberg
For nearly fifty years, Robert Rauschenberg—one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century—has cultivated an interest in printmaking, ranging from announcements for his own exhibitions to posters created for the cultural events and sociopolitical causes he supports. These curriculum materials study Rauschenberg's signature combinations of complex imagery, his technical innovations in printmaking, and the poster's ability to visually communicate to a broad public audience. Color transparencies include Rauschenberg's Ace, Earth Day, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Wall to Wall: John Cage and Friends. (4/05)

Figuration and Abstraction
Why do artists choose to incorporate abstract qualities in their paintings? In what ways do some of these artworks reference the real world? This program examines the ways twentieth-century artists Edward Weston, Lee Mullican, Helen Frankenthaler, and Mark Bradford have combined recognizable images and abstract elements in their artwork. Major influences, individual artist's intents, and broader metaphors, symbols, and references are also considered. (2/06)*

Bold, Bright, and Playful: Modern Design
From chairs and desks to typewriters and vases, twentieth-century designers have created functional, imaginative, and playful objects for our everyday needs. This curriculum highlights the innovative ideas, industrial vocabulary, and colorful shapes of modern design. The works of Ettore Sottsass, Peter Shire, Frank Gehry, and Issey Miyaki are highlighted. (4/06)*

Dalí and Surrealism
How can the world of dreams and the unconscious be reflected in works of art? In what ways can artists challenge representations of reality? Examine how artist Salvador Dalí and other surrealist artists explored the unconscious, fantasy, and the nature of dreams in their works of art. This packet highlights artworks by Salvador Dalí, Helen Lundeberg, and Joan Miro. (12/07)*

The Broad Contemporary Art Museum: Art, Architecture, and Everyday Life
Explore the art and architecture of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum and discover the ways artists and architects are inspired by their daily lives and surroundings. Study the artistic process through a variety of artworks, including building designs, paintings, and drawings of everyday scenes, and works that convey the artist's experiences and personal history. This packet also contains a CD of downloadable images and text. (4/08)*

Art, Ecology, and the Environment
This packet examines the role of artists in advocating the preservation of nature and documenting its misuse and destruction. The packet also explores the environmental art and earthworks movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Artists included are nineteenth-century American landscapist Thomas Moran and contemporary artists Robert Rauschenberg, Neil Jenny, and Robert Glenn Ketchum. (4/97)

The Art of Drawing
This packet provides a framework for looking at drawings and for understanding how and why artists make drawings. It features a stylistically and thematically diverse group of artists, including Paris Bordone, Winslow Homer, Odilon Redon, Vincent van Gogh, Kathe Kollwitz, and Jackson Pollock. (12/97)

In the Blink of an Eye: Movement and Time in Art
This packet explores how artists use images to suggest movement and depict events that happen over time. Sections on how scientists understand the concepts of time and motion and how we experience them in our daily lives are included. Color transparencies of works in LACMA’s permanent collection include: a fifteenth-century triptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint George, Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion, Ludwig Meidner’s Wannsee Train Station, and Ginny Bishton’s Walking 1. (12/01)*

Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art
This packet derives from the exhibition Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, which examined the relationships between five generations of modern artists and the so-called outsider artists who inspired them. These outsiders, removed from the established system of art museums, galleries, and universities, created intensely powerful and influential works of art from a position of singularity and isolation. Included are six color slides of art by Paul Klee, August Neter, Madge Gill, Jean Dubuffet, Simon Rodia, and Howard Finster. (11/92)

Preserving the Past: Conservation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
This packet provides an introduction to the field of conservation, which comprises interdisciplinary methods of studying, caring for, and preserving historic and artistic works for present and future generations. The packet discusses common threats to art objects and measures for preventive care, and it includes lesson plans on aesthetics, making paper and egg tempera, and more. The slide set includes nine "before and after treatment" images of objects in LACMA's permanent collection. (12/95)

The Visible World: Observation in Art and Science
Representing a diverse selection of media and subject matter, artworks can serve as a wonderful introduction to some of the ways artists represent the natural world and as a catalyst for thinking about the worlds of art and science. In this teacher’s packet spanning a variety of cultures and historical periods, the themes of observation and the visible world provide a framework for exploring some questions about the relationship between art and science. (4/99)

World Views: Exploring Maps in Art
This packet explores the practical function of maps and offers an opportunity to examine how maps and works of art reflect the worldview of the culture and historical period in which they originated. The transparencies in this packet come from different cultures, span many centuries, and are made of different materials, yet each provides a view of the world that could be called a map. Images include: a mandala from Nepal, a Renaissance-era silver globe cup, a map of Mecca from a holy book, and a computer-generated image of a landscape by Cindy Bernard. (3/01)

The Architect’s Art: Function and Design
Architecture is all around us. Explore the elements of architecture and the different forms of architectural representation in this resource packet. Form, function, material, scale, style, and design are discussed. Discover the design process through a variety of works in LACMA’s collection including: Paul Vredeman de Vries' Interior of Antwerp Cathedral, Gerrit Rietveld's Red-Blue Chair, the Vesnins' Palace of Labor (Project for Moscow), and Andreas Gursky's San Francisco. (04/03)*

Wonderment and Interaction: Science, Technology, and Art
How have artists explored themes of science and technology? How has science influenced art? Technology has become a way to investigate the influences and implications of science on contemporary culture, and this curriculum studies historical and contemporary innovations in artistic practice. By examining the confluence of these three themes—science, technology, and art—experience the sense of wonderment and the process of interaction that are integral to both scientific and artistic processes. Color transparencies include László Moholy-Nagy's photogram Untitled, Alexander Calder's kinetic sculpture Hello Girls, Dennis Oppenheim's large-scale sculpture Crystal Recorder, and a view of LACMALab's nano installation. (02/04)*

Design in the Home: The Arts and Crafts Movement, 1880–1920
These materials explore one of the most significant and far-reaching design movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Examine how the Arts and Crafts Movement promoted handmade objects produced from natural materials, embraced the ideal of total design unity, and encouraged the public to reexamine the relationship of art to everyday life. Color transparencies include a lamp designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright; a ceramic vase from the Newcomb Pottery workshop (New Orleans); a bookcase from Vienna, Austria; and chairs and a table designed by Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene for the Robert R. Blacker House in Pasadena. (2/05)*

The Landscape Across Cultures
From hanging scrolls and illustrated manuscripts to oil paintings and photographic projects, representing the land has been an important theme for artists from diverse time periods and civilizations. These materials consider the cultural context and stylistic choices informing different visual interpretations of the landscape, both observed and imagined. Color transparencies include a Persian illustrated manuscript from the sixteenth century, a Japanese folding screen from the late sixteenth/early seventeenth century, a Dutch oil painting by Jacob van Ruisdael (seventeenth century), and a twentieth-century photograph by Alfred Stieglitz. (3/05)*

The Urban Environment in Art
Urban spaces are dynamic gathering places for people, commodities, architecture, transportation systems, and histories. From the bustling energy of a city square to a quiet stroll along a street, this curriculum studies how artists' representations of cities provide viewers with historical information, as well as the ways that the urban environment can serve as an inspiration for artists. The artworks of seventeenth-century painter Canaletto, late nineteenth-century impressionist Pierre Bonnard, twentieth-century photographer André Kertész, and contemporary multimedia artist John F. Simon Jr. are represented. (3/06)*

Telling a Story: Narratives and Symbols in Art
How can art tell stories about different people, times, and places? What types of stories do artists choose to share? Explore the ways artists create a visual language using signs and symbols to represent historic accounts, legends, and other forms of narratives in paintings, sculptures, and other objects. (11/07)*

Music and Art
In what ways are visual artists inspired by music? How are sculptures and musical instruments similar or different? Consider the connections between music and visual art by examining artworks, from musical instruments with sculptural qualities to abstract paintings inspired by music theory. This packet highlights artworks by Wassily Kandinsky and Stanton Macdonald-Wright.  (3/08)*

*These packets contain four overhead color transparencies.

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