When we were young
Subtitle: new perspectives on the art of the child
By: edited by Jonathan Fineberg.
Contributors: Fineberg, Jonathan David.; Phillips Collection.; Krannert Art Museum.
Publisher: University of California Press, in association with the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art and Illinois at the Phillips, a program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780520250420; 9780520250437
Subjects: Children's drawings; Children's drawings -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: New perspectives on the art of the child.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., June17-Sept. 10, 2006, and at the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: gifts of seeing / Jonathan Fineberg; title: Beginning with the child / Rudolf Arnheim; title: The "Ket aesthetic": visual culture in childhood / Christine Marmé Thompson; title: Drawing in children's lives / Olga Ivashkevich; title: The early drawings of Louis XIII in the Journal de Jean Héroard / Misty S. Houston; title: "Animal sketching": aspects of drawing and play in early Calder / Elizabeth Hutton Turner; title: Child's play and the origins of art / Jonathan Fineberg; title: Children's art: an annotated chronology / by Jonathan Fineberg, Olga Ivashkevich, and Mysoon Rizk.