Discovering child art : essays on childhood, primitivism, and modernism
This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It shows that children's art and childhood have inspired major works of art, served as central metaphors for artistic spontaneity and honesty, and provided a window into the fundamental human qualities explored by modern artists
Print Book, English, ©1998
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1998
children's art
xxii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780691011882, 9780691086828, 0691011885, 0691086826
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The art of unlearning / Werner Hofmann
Beginning with the child / Rudolf Arnheim
Viollet-le-Duc's Historie d'un dessinateur / E.H. Gombrich
Larionov and children's drawings / G.G. Pospelov
Children's drawing in Russian futurism / Yuri Molok
"There is an unconscious, vast power in the child" : notes on Kandinsky, Münter and children's drawings / Barbara Wörwag
Paul Klee and children's art / Marcel Franciscono
The issue of childhood in Klee's late work / Josef Helfenstein
From primitivist phylogeny to formalist ontogeny : Roger Fry and children's drawings / Richard Shiff
Miró and children's drawings / Dora Vallier
The infant in the adult : Joan Miró and the infantile image / Christoper Green
Magic figures : Jorn, Cobra and children's drawings / Troels Andersen
From wonder to blunder : the child is mother to the man / John Carlin