Susan Goldman Rubin

Soup cans, dollar bills, movie stars, paint by numbers, is it art? Andy Warhol took ordinary objects from daily life and transformed them into enormous paintings using silk screens, acrylic paints, projections, and a team of helpers to achieve his goal. He was the leader of the American art movement known as Pop, short for "popular culture and changed the way we think of art.

The story of Irena Sendler, a diminutive Polish social worker who helped spirit more than 400 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.

Explores the life and work of the nineteenth-century French artist who devoted most of his artwork to the subject of ballet.

Explores the history and culture of a group of African American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, offering details on the community and their traditions.

"In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC"--Dust jacket flap.

Twelve diverse actors, directors, writers, editors, designers, and producers fought against sexism, racism and prejudice to have their voices heard and changed the industry forever.

An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.

The story of British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and her exotic bohemian life.

"Diego Rivera offers young readers unique insight into the life and artwork of the famous Mexican painter and muralist. The book follows Rivera's career, looking at his influences and tracing the evolution of his style. His work often called attention to the culture and struggles of the Mexican working class. Believing that art should be for the people, he created public murals in both the United States and Mexico, examples of which are included."--Amazon.com....

A well-known children's biography writer traces the events that shaped Georgia O'Keeffe's art and how art influenced her life in return. Features include reproductions of O'Keeffe's art. Full color.