When we were young: new perspectives on the art of the child

Abstract

"Created to accompany an exhibition on children's drawings, When We Were Young features a gallery of drawings by both famous artists such as Homer, Van Gogh, Picasso, Miro and Klee when they were children and by extraordinary "ordinary" children. An annotated chronology, with synopses and quotations from hundreds of sources, offers a comprehensive survey of the literature and history of child art from the thirteenth century to the present."--Jacket.

Contents

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