Discovering child art : essays on childhood, primitivism, and modernism / edited by Jonathan Fineberg.

Other author Fineberg, Jonathan David.
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Descriptionxxii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Child artists--Psychology.
Children's art--Themes, motives.

Uniform titleKinderzeichnung und die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. English.
Contents The art of unlearning / Werner Hofmann -- Behinning with the child / Rudolf Arnheim -- Viollet-le-Duc's Historie d'un dessinateur / E.H. Gombrich -- Larinov and children's drawings / G.G. Pospelov -- Children's drawing in Russian futurism / Yuri Molok -- "There is an unconscious, vast power in the child" : notes on Kandinsky, Münter and children's drawings / Barbara Wörwag -- Paul Klee and children's art / Marcel Franciscono -- The issue of childhood in Klee's late work / Josef Helfenstein -- From primitivist phylogeny to formalist ontogeny : Roger Fry and children's drawings / Richard Shiff -- Miró and children's drawings / Dora Vallier -- The infant in the adult : Joan Miró and the infantile image / Christopher Green -- Magic figures : jorn, cobra and children's drawings / Troels Andersen -- From wonder to blunder : the child is mother to the man / John Carlin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97023803
ISBN0691011885 (alk. paper)