The avant-garde is often associated with primitivism, and childhood is one of the primitive sites in which the avant-garde was interested. Neither art historians nor children's literature specialists have explored this connection, and yet the material on either side of the divide is well loved and known to many people. In this study, Olson looks at children's culture in relation to the painters Rousseau, Chagall, Picasso, Modersohn-Becker and Nicholson, noting the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the intersection of children's literature with fin-de-siecle artistic trends.
The avant-garde is often associated with primitivism, and childhood is one of the primitive sites in which the avant-garde was interested. Neither art historians nor children's literature specialists have explored this connection, and yet the material on either side of the divide is well loved and known to many people. In this study, Olson looks at children's culture in relation to the painters Rousseau, Chagall, Picasso, Modersohn-Becker and Nicholson, noting the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the intersection of children's literature with fin-de-siecle artistic trends.
By:
Marilynn Strasser Olson Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 86 Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 620g ISBN:9780415872683 ISBN 10: 0415872685 Series:Children's Literature and Culture Pages: 246 Publication Date:25 August 2012 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
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A / AS level
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Marilyn Olson is Professor of English at Texas State University.
