{"product_id":"childhood-by-design-9781501332029","title":"Childhood by Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInformed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, \u003ci\u003eChildhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children. This volume situates toys and design culture for children within broader narratives on history, art, design and the decorative arts, where toy design has traditionally been viewed as an aberration from more serious pursuits. The essays included treat toys not merely as unproblematic reflections of socio-cultural constructions of childhood but consider how design culture actively shaped, commodified and materialized shifting discursive constellations surrounding childhood and children. Focusing on the new array of material objects designed in response to the modern invention' of childhoodwhat we might refer to as objects for a\u003ci\u003e childhood by design\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildhood by Design\u003c\/i\u003e explores dynamic tensions betwe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume, edited by Megan Brandow-Faller, is a very welcome addition to the growing literature and the ensuing methodological renewal. * ResearchGate *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildhood by Design\u003c\/i\u003e expands upon a common body of research that includes work by Gary Cross, Miriam Forman-Brunell, and Brian Sutton-Smith and, like their books often did, it should prove fascinating to students as well as to scholars. And, also as their work did, \u003ci\u003eChildhood by Design\u003c\/i\u003e poses some new directions in material culture studies. * American Journal of Play *\u003cbr\u003eA significant new addition to this area ...\u003ci\u003e Childhood by Design\u003c\/i\u003e has much to offer those interested in childhood and its physical manifestations, particularly to those with an interest in constructions of girlhood. * Cultural and Social History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e by Design \u003c\/i\u003etakes toys seriously as material embodiments of cultural and political values capable of shaping children’s beliefs through play. Yet in its careful treatment of design, the volume explores not only toys’ intended uses, but also imagines the ways that children might resist, adapt, and reinterpret the cultural aims that toys seek to impart. Contributions draw upon diverse material evidence from collections around the world to produce nuanced accounts of the role of design in children’s toys. Ambitious in its geographical and historical scope, this rich interdisciplinary volume combines the concerns and approaches of history, art and design history, and childhood studies in an original exploration of children’s material culture. -- Meredith A. Bak * Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University-Camden *\u003cbr\u003eThis sweeping collection that interpretively and imaginatively crosses fields and continents brings to light the agency of toys in “crystallizing the modern invention of childhood,” and especially girlhood. The uniformly outstanding essays trace more than 400 years of significant historical figures and forces—from aesthetics and ideologies to philosophies of childhood and patterns of consumption, play to pedagogy, discourse to design, anxiety to creativity, and colonialism to appropriation—dynamically informing dolls, doll houses, books, etc. Richly illustrated with objects along with advertisements and embroidery, catalogues and scrolls, this far reaching collection, that contributes importantly to contemporary and scholarly debates, is a major contribution to material culture, visual culture, children’s, and dolls studies, not to mention the history of play, toys, and girls. The innovative methodologies and theoretical frameworks of these accessibly written studies by \u003ci\u003etruly \u003c\/i\u003einterdisciplinary thinkers from across the academy, are instructional, informative, and inspirational to scholars and students alike. I love this book! -- Miriam Forman-Brunell * Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, and author of Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of Girlhood (1998) and Dolls Studies: The Many Meanings of Girls’ Toys and Play (2015) *\u003cbr\u003e[T]his book [is] important and [will] open researchers to many avenues... in a field that continues to open up to new issues. * Strenæ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments  Introduction: Materializing the History of Childhood and Children \u003ci\u003eMegan Brandow-Faller, City University of New York Kingsborough, USA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Inventing the Material Child: Childhood, Consumption and Commodity Culture\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Training the Child Consumer: Play, Toys and Learning to Shop in 18th-Century Britain \u003ci\u003eSerena Dyer, Middlesex University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long 18th-Century \u003ci\u003e Ariane Fennetaux, University of Paris, Diderot, France\u003c\/i\u003e 3. The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle Epoque France \u003ci\u003eSarah Curtis, San Francisco State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity \u003ci\u003eColin Fanning, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Child’s Play? Avant-Garde and Reform Toy Design\u003c\/b\u003e 5. Cultivating Aesthetic Ways of Looking: Walter Crane, \u003ci\u003eFlora's Feast\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Possibilities of Children's Literature \u003ci\u003eAndrea Korda, University of Alberta, Augustana, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e 6. The Unexpected Victory of \u003ci\u003eCharakter-Puppen\u003c\/i\u003e: Dolls, Artists, Aesthetics and Identity in Early 20th-Century Germany \u003ci\u003eBryan Ganaway, The College of Charleston, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play and Unlearning in the Bauhaus Legacy \u003ci\u003eMichelle Millar Fisher, City University of New York, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Simply Child’s Play? Toys, Idealogy,and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Czechoslovakia before 1968 \u003ci\u003eCathleen Giustino, Auburn University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope House \u003ci\u003eKaren Stock, Winthrop University, USA and Katherine Wheeler, University of Miami, USA\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III: Toys, Play and Design Culture as Instruments of Political and Ideological Indoctrination\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Material Culture in Miniature: Nuremberg Kitchens as Inspirational Toys in the Long 19th Century \u003ci\u003eJames E. Bryan, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial Culture Through Child-Made Objects \u003ci\u003eLynette Townsend, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand\u003c\/i\u003e 12. Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German Southwest Africa, 1890 to 1918 \u003ci\u003eJakob Zollman, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early Soviet Reception of Folk Art Toys \u003ci\u003eMarie Gasper-Hulvat, Kent State University at Stark, USA\u003c\/i\u003e 14. The ‘Appropriate’ Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910-1960s \u003ci\u003eValentina Boretti, University of London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019957502295,"sku":"9781501332029","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501332029.jpg?v=1750781876","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/childhood-by-design-9781501332029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}