Imagining Childhood: Themes in the Imagery of Childhood Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Imagining Childhood: Themes in the Imagery of Childhood Book

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 Picassoâ??s Guernica, Erika Langmuir demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the `discovery of childhoodâ??. Famous pictures by great artists, as well as barely known anonymous artefacts, illustrate not only Western societyâ??s perennially ambivalent attitudes to children, but also the many and varied functions that works of art have played throughout its history.Read More

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  • 0300101317
  • 9780300101317
  • E Langmuir
  • 24 October 2006
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 256
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