This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and
scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely
documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It 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 explored
by modern artists.
The volume complements editor Jonathan Fineberg's groundbreaking
new book, "The Innocent Eye" (Princeton, 1997), in which he showed
how many of the greatest masters of modern art collected and were
directly influenced by children's drawings. Contributors here both
expand on Fineberg's themes and take the study of children's art in
new directions. They examine, for example, the influence of child
art on such artists as Kandinsky, Klee, Larionov, and Miro; the
diverse styles of children's art; the influence of Romantic ideas
on perceptions of children's art; the conception of giftedness
versus education in children's drawings; and the relationship
between children's art and primitivism. The book offers unique
glimpses into the working processes of great modern artists,
presenting, for example, Dora Vallier's personal recollections of
Miro and his creative process, and new documentation about the
works of the Russian avant-garde. The essays draw on art theory,
psychology, and the close study of individual works of art and
written texts. "Discovering Child Art" will appeal to a wide range
of readers, including art historians, psychologists, and art
educators.
Contributors to the book are Troels Andersen, Rudolf Arnheim,
John Carlin, Marcel Franciscono, Ernst Gombrich, Christopher Green,
Josef Helfenstein, Werner Hofmann, Yuri Molok, G. G. Pospelov,
Richard Shiff, Dora Vallier, and Barbara Wurwag."
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