Child Art in Context: A Cultural and Comparative Perspective

Examines the process of creative expression in child art from an innov ative socio-cultural and historical perspective. Over 100 drawings and sculpture illustrate the genesis and development of representational skill and its progression in the visual arts as well as theories on ho w this course can best be understood. Shows the intelligence of child ren's endeavors to invent symbol systems that represent their ideas in drawing and sculpture, emphasizing the vitality that modern artists h ave admired in childish or "primitive" forms. Interesting to developm ental psychologists, educational psychologists, clinical psychologists who use drawings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, anthropologi sts interested in the arts, art historians, and art educators, as well as undergraduate and graduate students in these fields.