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Children's culture and the avant-garde : painting in Paris, 1890-1915 / Marilynn Strasser Olson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olson, Marilynn Strasser, author.
- Series:
- Children's literature and culture.
- Children's literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature--History and criticism.
- Children's literature.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--France--Paris.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Art and literature--France--History--19th century.
- Art and literature.
- Art and literature--France--History--20th century.
- Children in art.
- Children in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume explores the mutual influences between children's literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children's literature and culture in the Golden Age. The ideas explored by artists such as Florence Upton, Henri Rousseau, Sir William Nicholson, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Marc Chagall had been disseminated widely in cultural productions for children; their work, in turn, influenced children's culture. These artists turned to children's culture as a
- Contents:
- Cover; CHILDREN'S CULTURE AND THE AVANT-GARDE: Painting in Paris, 1890-1915; Copyright; CONTENTS; FIGURES; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Higglety-Pigglety Modernism; Chapter One Turn-of-the-Century Grotesque: The Uptons' Golliwogg in Context; Chapter Two Henri Rousseau: Jungles Transformed; Chapter Three William Nicholson: A Swashbuckling Time; Chapter Four Paula Modersohn-Becker: Someone Who Has a Long Road in Front of Her Doesn't Run; Chapter Five Marc Chagall: I Was Not Born Simply to Seek Pleasure; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-203-10936-8
- 1-299-28026-9
- 1-136-26949-5
- 9780203109366
- OCLC:
- 830161088
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