Art as a Primary Source

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Art as a Primary Source

• representation of social time period and mores
• daily life and dress
• propaganda vs. truth
• sponsorship
• intended audience
• choice of subject

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Tres Riches Heures, Limbourg brothers (1412-1416)
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Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, Jacques
Louis David (1804)
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Death of Marat, Jacques Louis David (1793)
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Death of Wolfe, Benjamin Grant (1771)
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Guernica, Pablo Picasso (1937)
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Dieppe Raid, Charles Fraser Comfort (1942)
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American Gothic, Grant Wood (1930)
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Nighthawks, Edward Hopper (1942)
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Migration Series, Jacob Lawrence (1940)
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Mao, Andy Warhol (1972)