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| American Visions - This is a general overview of the art video series we watch throughout the year. | Watson and the Shark - (Art video #1) an excellent site that shows the picture and explains where Copley may have received his inspiration. | Hughes, art critic for Time Magazine, explores the sweeping history of American art and the influences that make it unique. He takes time to talk with Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston. Short interview | Explanation of the book jacket of The Great Gatsby. This is the most famous book jacket in American literature. The story behind the cover is interesting and informative. | |||
| Art Video #3 we saw a piece on Crazy Horse. Here is a link to their website. Crazy Horse webcam . We also talked about Civil War photographs, Mathew Brady in particular. | The Global Village- What if today's world was a village of 100 people? | Ever wonder what the cost of something in the past would be today? There are calculators that people have created online that do this. They use the Consumers Price Index or Cost of Living Index to do this. Here is one that you can use for any year 1800 - 2005. Here is another site that has many calculators to choose from. This last site is from NASA, why would they have this? (it probably has something to do with the space-time continuum thing) | ||||