Imagining Childhood
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: December 12, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300101317
Subjects: Art styles not limited by date; Social history; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; Art / General; General; Childhood in art; Children in art
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."--Alibris.