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New Perspectives on the Art of the Child
University of California Press
August 2006
304 pages ISBN: 0520250435 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction
In his last and most overarching essay on the subject,
Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of
individuality in children's drawings and to recognize the
child's creation of "significant form" as a way of bringing
coherence to his or her experience of the world. This
groundbreaking book brings together distinguished critics
and scholars, including Rudolf Arnheim, to explore
children's art and its profound but rarely documented
history. The contributors address central questions of how
children use art to make sense of their experience and what
really constitutes visual "giftedness" in children. They
also cover such topics as visual thinking, the influence of
popular culture on children's drawings, giftedness versus
education in children's drawings, process, and social
interaction in drawing. Created to accompany an exhibition
on children's drawings, When We Were Young features a
stunning full-color gallery of drawings both by famous
artists such as Ingres, Van Gogh, Picasso, Miró, and Klee
when they were children and by extraordinary "ordinary"
children. An annotated chronology, with synopses and more
than a thousand scholarly notes, offers a comprehensive
survey of the literature and history of child art from the
thirteenth century to the present.
Essays by Rudolf Arnheim, Jonathan Fineberg, Misty S.
Houston, Olga Ivashkevich, Christine Marmé Thompson, and
Elizabeth Hutton Turner
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