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ArtsEdge Lesson Plan: The New York School: Action and Abstraction
URL: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/3797/

Description:
Lesson plan for high school students about "the influences that one artistic genre has on another -- specifically, the similarities between the New York School poets and Abstract Expressionist visual artists." The lesson invites students to compare Frank O'Hara's poem, "The Day Lady Died," with "Painting No. 7" by Franz Kline. From the National Arts and Education Network (ArtsEdge), a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Publisher:
Kennedy Center; National Endowment for the Arts

Extra Keywords
Jackson Pollock

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Abstract expressionism
American poetry -- New York (State) -- New York
Arts, American -- 20th century

LII Database Information:
Record 20923 created by Maria Brandt on 03/14/2006
Last modification on 03/21/2006
Published: 03/23/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20923