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Explores children's art and its history. This book addresses central questions of how children use art to make sense of their experience and what really constitutes visual 'giftedness' in children. It also covers such topics as visual thinking, and the influence of popular culture on children's drawings.

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Foreword by Jay Gates and Richard Herman Acknowledgments by Jonathan Fineberg and Kathleen T. Harleman Introduction: Gifts of Seeing Jonathan Fineberg Beginning with the Child Rudolf Arnheim The "Ket Aesthetic": Visual Culture in Childhood Christine Marme Thompson Drawing in Children's Lives Olga Ivashkevich The Early Drawings of Louis XIII in the Journal de Jean Heroard Misty S. Houston "Animal Sketching": Aspects of Drawing and Play in Early Calder Elizabeth Hutton Turner Child's Play and the Origins of Art Jonathan Fineberg Gallery Children's Art: An Annotated Chronology by Jonathan Fineberg, Olga Ivashkevich, and Mysoon Rizk Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 07/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9780520250437, 978-0520250437
      ISBN10: 0520250435

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores children's art and its history. This book addresses central questions of how children use art to make sense of their experience and what really constitutes visual 'giftedness' in children. It also covers such topics as visual thinking, and the influence of popular culture on children's drawings.

      Table of Contents
      Foreword by Jay Gates and Richard Herman Acknowledgments by Jonathan Fineberg and Kathleen T. Harleman Introduction: Gifts of Seeing Jonathan Fineberg Beginning with the Child Rudolf Arnheim The "Ket Aesthetic": Visual Culture in Childhood Christine Marme Thompson Drawing in Children's Lives Olga Ivashkevich The Early Drawings of Louis XIII in the Journal de Jean Heroard Misty S. Houston "Animal Sketching": Aspects of Drawing and Play in Early Calder Elizabeth Hutton Turner Child's Play and the Origins of Art Jonathan Fineberg Gallery Children's Art: An Annotated Chronology by Jonathan Fineberg, Olga Ivashkevich, and Mysoon Rizk Index

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