Romare Bearden
Publication Information
Author:  Greenberg, Jan	Illustrator:  Romare Bearden
Title:  Romare Bearden	Date:  2003
Publisher:  Harry N. Abrams, Inc.	City:  New York
ISBN, paperback:  0-8109-4589-4	ISBN, hardback:
Recommended audience:
ABE/ABLE:   Yes	ESOL:
Family:	Young Adult:
Picture:   Yes
General Information:
Book Type(s):    biography and autobiography
HSE Descriptor(s):    language arts - reading
Summary:
This biography of the multi-talented artist Romare Bearden is vibrantly illustrated with reproductions of his work. An author's note, a timeline, a bibliography, a glossary, and a list of the locations of art works make the book as useful in the classroom as for the individual reader.
Teaching Ideas:
This book entices the reader to try to make a collage. A keyword search on the database using "collage" will provide a list of books illustrated with collage. Learners might choose a favorite illustration and write a response to it. The book contains evocative figures of speech like the one on p. 28, "she looked like a locomotive coming around a corner." Students could find a favorite example and explain why it works. Students might want to write about the creative process that Bearden describes in The Studio Visit section. Students interested in music might want to discuss Bearden talk about the silences in jazz that the author equates "the hot and cold colors" with "the pauses heard in jazz."
Keywords: select any link below for a list of resources which also have that keyword
Art and Photography > art > artists > Bearden, Romare Art and Photography > art > collage Ethnic Groups > African-American Emotions-Personal Issues > emotions > imagination History > time period > 20th Century Literature and Language > figurative language

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