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Book SynopsisBrings together thirteen critics and scholars to explore children's art and its documented influence on the evolution of modern art. This book 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.
Trade Review"The breadth of the 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, drawing, and aesthetic theories of many of this century's most innovative artists." - Steven Monsbach, 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 sheives." - Kent Anderson, School Arts"
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsForewordThe Art of Unlearning3Beginning with the Child15Viollet-le-Duc's Histoire d'un dessinateur27Larionov and Children's Drawings40Children's Drawing in Russian Futurism55"There Is an Unconscious, Vast Power in the Child": Notes on Kandinsky, Munter and Children's Drawings68Paul Klee and Children's Art95The Issue of Childhood in Klee's Late Work122From Primitivist Phylogeny to Formalist Ontogeny: Roger Fry and Children's Drawings157Miro and Children's Drawings201The Infant in the Adult: Joan Miro and the Infantile Image210Magic Figures: Jorn, Cobra and Children's Drawings235From Wonder to Blunder: The Child Is Mother to the Man242Notes on the Contributors263Index265
