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When we were young : new perspectives on the art of the child / edited by Jonathan Fineberg.
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- ISBN: 0520250427
- ISBN: 0520250435
- ISBN: 9780520250420
- ISBN: 9780520250437
- Physical Description: xiii, 289 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, in association with the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art and Illinois at the Phillips, a program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, c2006.
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| General Note: | "Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--P. [v]. Catalog of an exhibition at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., June17-Sept. 10, 2006, and at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 2006. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-282) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: gifts of seeing / Jonathan Fineberg -- Beginning with the child / Rudolf Arnheim -- The "Ket aesthetic": visual culture in childhood / Christine Marmé Thompson -- Drawing in children's lives / Olga Ivashkevich -- The early drawings of Louis XIII in the Journal de Jean Héroard / Misty S. Houston -- "Animal sketching": aspects of drawing and play in early Calder / Elizabeth Hutton Turner -- Child's play and the origins of art / Jonathan Fineberg -- Children's art: an annotated chronology / by Jonathan Fineberg, Olga Ivashkevich, and Mysoon Rizk. |
| Summary, etc.: | In this anthology Fineberg brings together distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented history. Rudolf Arnheim, in his last essay, 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. Other contributors address the question of what really constitues visual "giftedness" in children. They also cover such topics as visual thinking, the influence of popular culture on children's drawings, how drawing relates to play, and whether great artists draw differenly as children. Created to accompany an exhibition on children's drawings, When we were young features a gallery of drawings by both famous artists such as Homer, Van Gogh, Picasso, Miro, and Klee when they were children and by extraordinary "ordinary" children. An annotated chronology, with synopses and illuminating quotations from hundreds of sources, offers a comprehensive survey of the literature and history of child art from the thirteenth century to the present.--Dust Jacket. |
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| Subject: | Children's drawings. Children's drawings > Exhibitions. |
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When We Were Young : New Perspectives on the Art of the Child
Jonathan Fineberg is Gutgsell Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia universities and is a trustee of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. In addition to editing Discovering Child Art: Essays on Childhood, Primitivism, and Modernism, he is the author of The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and The Modern Artist, Art since 1940, and Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art.
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