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Childhood by Design - Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present (Hardcover)
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Childhood by Design - Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present (Hardcover)
Series: Material Culture of Art and Design
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Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary
'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood,
Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood
offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design
culture for children. This volume situates toys and design culture
for children within broader narratives on history, art, design and
the decorative arts, where toy design has traditionally been viewed
as an aberration from more serious pursuits. The essays included
treat toys not merely as unproblematic reflections of
socio-cultural constructions of childhood but consider how design
culture actively shaped, commodified and materialized shifting
discursive constellations surrounding childhood and children.
Focusing on the new array of material objects designed in response
to the modern 'invention' of childhood-what we might refer to as
objects for a childhood by design-Childhood by Design explores
dynamic tensions between theory and practice, discursive
constructions and lived experience as embodied in the material
culture of childhood. Contributions from and between a variety of
disciplinary perspectives (including history, art history, material
cultural studies, decorative arts, design history, and childhood
studies) are represented - critically linking historical discourses
of childhood with close study of material objects and design
culture. Chronologically, the volume spans the 18th century, which
witnessed the invention of the toy as an educational plaything and
a proliferation of new material artifacts designed expressly for
children's use; through the 19th-century expansion of factory-based
methods of toy production facilitating accuracy in miniaturization
and a new vocabulary of design objects coinciding with the
recognition of childhood innocence and physical separation within
the household; towards the intersection of early 20th-century
child-centered pedagogy and modernist approaches to nursery and
furniture design; through the changing consumption and sales
practices of the postwar period marketing directly to children
through television, film and other digital media; and into the
present, where the line between the material culture of childhood
and adulthood is increasingly blurred.
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