Discovering Child Art: Essays on Childhood, Primitivism, and Modernism
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Discovering Child Art: Essays on Childhood, Primitivism, and Modernism
By (Author) Jonathan Fineberg
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd January 2001
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Age groups: children
709.04
Physical Properties
Paperback
296
Width 191mm, Height 254mm
765g
Description
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. The volume complements editor Jonathan Fineberg's groundbreaking 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 to the book are Troels Andersen, Rudolf Amheim. John Carlin, Marcel Franciscono. E.H. Gombrich, Christopher Green, Josef Helfenstein, Werner Hofmann, Yuri Molok G. G. Pospelov, Richard Shiff, Dora Vallier, and Barbara Worwag.
Reviews
"The breadth of the contributions, the eminence of the authors, and the new perspectives brought to light help clarify dramatically the seminal role children's art played in paintings, drawing, and aesthetic theories of many of this century's most innovative artists." - Steven Monsbach, Pratt Institute "The premise that many of the great masters of twentieth-century art collected children's drawings in depth, and that these drawings directly influenced some of their most celebrated works, is extended and explored [in Discovering Child Art] by a diverse group of museum directors and curators, art historians, psychologists, philosophers, and critics.... This book is recommended for both art history and art education university resource sheives." - Kent Anderson, School Arts"
Author Bio
Jonathan Fineberg is Professor of Art History and University Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has won the Pulitzer Fellowship in Critical Writing and the Art Critic's Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts. Fineberg has curated major exhibitions in the United States and Europe and has published widely on modern art. His most recent books are The Innocent Eye (Princeton) and Art since 1940: Strategies of Being.
