| Imagining Childhood Contributor(s): Langmuir, Erika (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300101317 ISBN-13: 9780300101317 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2006 Annotation: The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely across time, national boundaries, and genres from ancient Egyptian amulets to Picasso's "Guernica," Erika Langmuir demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the 'discovery of childhood'. Famous pictures by great artists, as well as barely known anonymous artefacts, illustrate not only Western society's perennially ambivalent attitudes to children, but also the many and varied functions that works of art have played throughout its history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Subjects & Themes - Portraits |
| Dewey: 704.942 |
| LCCN: 2006006485 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 8" W x 10.6" (2.65 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely across time, national boundaries, and genres from ancient Egyptian amulets to Picasso's Guernica, Erika Langmuir demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the 'discovery of childhood'. Famous pictures by great artists, as well as barely known anonymous artefacts, illustrate not only Western society's perennially ambivalent attitudes to children, but also the many and varied functions that works of art have played throughout its history. |