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Genre/Form: | children's art Children's art |
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Named Person: | Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov; Wassily Kandinsky; Gabriele Münter; Paul Klee; Roger Fry; Joan Miró; Asger Jorn |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan David Fineberg |
ISBN: | 0691011885 9780691011882 0691086826 9780691086828 |
OCLC Number: | 37201375 |
Description: | xxii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | The art of unlearning / Werner Hofmann -- Behinning with the child / Rudolf Arnheim -- Viollet-le-Duc's Historie d'un dessinateur / E.H. Gombrich -- Larinov 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. |
Other Titles: | Kinderzeichnung und die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jonathan Fineberg. |
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"The breadth of contributions, the eminence of the authors, and the new perspectives brought to light help clarify dramatically the seminal role children's art played in paintings, drawings, and aesthetic theories of many of this century's most innovative artists."-Steven Mansbach, Pratt Institute "The premise that many of the great masters of twentieth-century art collected children's drawings in depth, and that these drawings directly influenced some of their most celebrated works, is extended and explored [in Discovering Child Art] by a diverse group of museum directors and curators, art historians, psychologists, philosophers, and critics. . . . This book is recommended for both art history and art education university resource shelves."-Kent Anderson, School Arts Read more...

