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- Engage with art and visual culture to explore the social, cultural, and historical conditions under which people and goods move from place to place
- Supports discussion of the ways transportation enables social connection, trade, consumerism, etc. in a global society
- Aligns with contemporary issues of global migration, refugee crisis, and xenophobia
- Enhances visual literacy and observation skills, providing students with skills needed to grasp all available information, deconstruct arguments made visually, and form well-rounded conclusions
Subthemes:
- Public Transit
- Automobiles
- Highways & Roads
- Railway
- Ships & Boats
- Bicycles
- Animal-Aided Transport
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Ralph Gibson
John Sloan
Guy Pène du Bois
Simka Simkhovitch
Isac Friedlander
Kobayashi Kiyochika
Franz de Paula Ferg
Neal Slavin