This volume explores the mutual influences between children s
literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on
fin-de-si cle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in
thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children s
literature and culture in the Golden Age. The ideas explored by
artists such as Florence Upton, Henri Rousseau, Sir William
Nicholson, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Marc Chagall had been
disseminated widely in cultural productions for children; their
work, in turn, influenced children s culture. These artists turned
to children s culture as a "new way of seeing," allied to a
contemporary interest in international artistic styles. Children s
culture also has strong ties to decadence and to the grotesque, the
latter of which became a distinctively Modernist vision.
This book visits the qualities of the era that were defined as
uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art,
and the relation of children s literature to fin-de-si cle artistic
trends. Topics of interest include the use of non-European figures
(the Golliwogg), approaches to religion and pedagogy, to oppression
and motherhood, to Nature in a post-Darwinian world, and to vision
in art and life. Olson s unique focus covers new ground by
concentrating not simply on children's literature, but on how
childhood experiences and culture figure in art.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
