Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde

Painting in Paris, 1890-1915
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-87268-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Children's Literature and Culture

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-siècle artistic trends.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Strasser Olson, Marilynn

Olson, Marilynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Menschen, Häusliches Umfeld
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Turn-of-the-Century Grotesque: The Uptons' Golliwogg and Dolls in Context 2. Jungles Transformed: Henri Rousseau and Children's Culture 3. Sir William Nicholson 4. Paula Modersohn-Becker 5. Marc Chagall 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Olson, Marilynn
Marilyn Olson is Professor of English at Texas State University.