LEARNING THROUGH ART

Inspired by Learning Through Art/The Guggenheim Museum Children's Program, which harnesses the arts to play a role in helping children to learn to read and write, this is an activity book for elementary-school pupils and their families.

Large colour reproductions of 12 masterpieces from the Guggenheim's collection are used to reinforce subjects in the US primary-school curriculum.

The book is accompanied by a felt-tipped pen.Chagall's painting "Paris Through the Window" (1913) is used for the section on creative drawing and writing; Malevich's "Morning in the Village After Snowstorm" (1912) is the springboard for a social-studies lesson on village life in pre-revolutionary Russia; and David Smith's monumnetal sculpture "Cubi XXVII" (1965) is the basis for a section on shapes, measurements and mathematics that includes a pop-up box, a see-through acetate gridded page, and spaces for writing responses to questions.