Imagining Childhood
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10318935M
- ISBN-139780300101317
- ISBN-100300101317
- OCLC Control Number64336178
- OCLC Control Numberimaginingchildho0000lang
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006006485
- LibraryThing3490074
- Goodreads1039485
Classifications
- LCCN7640.L36 2006
Description
"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 history."--Alibris.
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