Imagining Childhood

Name: Imagining Childhood
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ISBN: 9780300101317

ISBN-10: 0300101317

ISBN-13: 9780300101317

Edition: 2006

Authors: Erika Langmuir

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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 Picasso's "Guernica," Erika Langmuir demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the 'discovery of childhood'. Famous pictures by great artists, as well as barely known anonymous artefacts, illustrate not only Western society's perennially ambivalent attitudes to children, but also the many and varied functions that works of art have played throughout its…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/12/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.80" wide x 1.07" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English



Introduction : mainly about parents



The vulnerable child



Protection



Innocent victims



Mourning and consolation



Stages of childhood



'The vilest state of human nature' : swaddled infancy



The first steps and the baby walker



'Better to keep still' : playful childhood and adult laughter



'Jean qui pleure et Jean qui rit', and 'as the old have sung so pipe the young'



Miniature adults



Children's dynastic portraits


Conclusion : bubbles