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What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children?

This study explores how over three hundred children's picture books, most of them published in the last three decades in English, introduce children to art and art museums. It considers how the books emerge from and relate to a range of theories and assumptions about childhood and childhood development, children's literature and culture, illustration, visual art, museology, and art education.

As well as examining how these theories and assumptions influence what picture books teach young readers about visiting museums and about how to look at and think about art, it examines which artists and artworks appear most often in picture books and offers a survey of different kinds of art-related picture books: ones that claim to be purely informational, ones that make looking at art a game or a puzzle, ones in wh

Representations of Art and Art Museums in

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 1/14/2024 12:11:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781350442313
      978-1350442313
      ISBN-10 1350442313
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children?

      This study explores how over three hundred children's picture books, most of them published in the last three decades in English, introduce children to art and art museums. It considers how the books emerge from and relate to a range of theories and assumptions about childhood and childhood development, children's literature and culture, illustration, visual art, museology, and art education.

      As well as examining how these theories and assumptions influence what picture books teach young readers about visiting museums and about how to look at and think about art, it examines which artists and artworks appear most often in picture books and offers a survey of different kinds of art-related picture books: ones that claim to be purely informational, ones that make looking at art a game or a puzzle, ones in wh

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