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The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World Book
Psychologists and educators tend to judge child art by adult standards of "realism" or "naturalism." By comparison with the work of accomplished adult artists, children's drawings seem defective, exhibiting the child's so-called "primitive" conceptions of the world. In her landmark study, illustrated with more than 200 examples in color and black and white, Claire Golomb leaves that perspective far behind. She explores child art as an expression of visual thinking--the symbol-making function of the mind which produces images rather than words--and discovers that child art displays an orderly progression in the development of representational concepts. Children show a competent, sophisticated understanding, heretofore unsuspected, of the nature of representation and its problems.Working … read more...
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