Picturing Children
Subtitle: Constructions of Childhood Between Rousseau and Freud
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780754602774
Subjects: Children in art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; General; Children; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Human figures depicted in art; c 1800 to c 1900; Childhood in art; History - General
Description: "This book charts the development of the Romantic ideal of childhood, starting with Rousseau's Emile, and attends to its visual, social and psychological transformations during the historical period from which Freud's psychoanalytic theories eventually emerged.

Foremost scholars such as Anne Higonnet, Carol Mavor, Susan Casteras and Linda Pollock uncover the means by which children became an important conduit for prevailing social anxieties and demonstrate that the apparently 'timeless' images of them that proliferated at the time should be understood as complex cultural documents."--BOOK JACKET.