Imagining childhood /
Langmuir, Erika.
Imagining childhood / Erika Langmuir. - New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2006. - 263 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Introduction : mainly about parents -- The vulnerable child -- Protection -- Innocent victims -- Mourning and consolation -- Stages of childhood -- 'The vilest state of human nature' : swaddled infancy -- 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.
Demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the 'discovery of childhood'. This book illustrates 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.
0300101317 9780300101317
Children in art.
N7640 .L36 2006
Imagining childhood / Erika Langmuir. - New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, 2006. - 263 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Introduction : mainly about parents -- The vulnerable child -- Protection -- Innocent victims -- Mourning and consolation -- Stages of childhood -- 'The vilest state of human nature' : swaddled infancy -- 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.
Demonstrates that no historic period has a monopoly on the 'discovery of childhood'. This book illustrates 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.
0300101317 9780300101317
Children in art.
N7640 .L36 2006