Picturing children : constructions of childhood between Rousseau and Freud / edited by Marilyn R. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Marilyn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children in art.

Physical Description:

xix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: Baudelaire between Rousseau and Freud / Marilyn R. Brown

Introduction: the unmaking of childhood / Carol Mavor

Sex education and the child: gendering erotic response in eighteenth-century France / Jennifer Milam

Family matters: the construction of childhood in nineteenth-century artists' biographies / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

Childhood and aesthetic education: the role of Emile in the formation of Gustave Courbet's The painter's studio / Daniel R. Guernsey

Baudelaire's 'La corde' as a figuration of Manet's art / Nancy Locke

Impressionist dolls: on the commodification of girlhood in impressionist painting / Greg M. Thomas

Winged fantasies: construction of childhood, innocence, adolescence, and sexuality in Victorian fairy painting / Susan P. Casteras

Photographing childhood: Lewis Carroll and Alice / Diane Waggoner

Toys in Freud's attic: torment and taboo in the child and adolescent themes of Vienna's image-makers / Alessandra Comini

Children's studies and the romantic child / George Dimock

What do you want to know about children? / Anne Higonnet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.

ISBN:

075460277X

OCLC:

46857334