Description
The breadth of contributions, the eminence of the authors, and the new perspectives brought to light help clarify dramatically the seminal role children's art played in paintings, drawings, and aesthetic theories of many of this century's most innovative artists. -- Steven Mansbach, Pratt Institute The premise that many of the great masters of twentieth-century art collected children's drawings in depth, and that these drawings directly influenced some of their most celebrated works, is extended and explored [in Discovering Child Art] by a diverse group of museum directors and curators, art historians, psychologists, philosophers, and critics... This book is recommended for both art history and art education university resource shelves. -- Kent Anderson, School Arts
About the Author
Jonathan Fineberg is Professor of Art History and University Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has won the Pultzer Fellowship in Critical Writing and the Art Critic's Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Arts. He has curated major exhibitions in the United States and Europe. His recent books include The Innocent Eye (Princeton) and Art since 1940: Strotegies of Being.
Reviews
"The breadth of the contributions, the eminence of the authors, and the new perspectives brought to light help clarify dramatically the seminal role children's art played in paintings, drawing, and aesthetic theories of many of this century's most innovative artists." - Steven Monsbach, Pratt Institute "The premise that many of the great masters of twentieth-century art collected children's drawings in depth, and that these drawings directly influenced some of their most celebrated works, is extended and explored [in Discovering Child Art] by a diverse group of museum directors and curators, art historians, psychologists, philosophers, and critics.... This book is recommended for both art history and art education university resource sheives." - Kent Anderson, School Arts"
Book Information
ISBN 9780691086828
Author Jonathan Fineberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 765g