Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde: Painting in Paris, 1890-1915

ISBN-13: 9781138548015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

Marilynn Strasser Olson

Opis

This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson looks at children’s culture in relation to such painters as Rousseau, Chagall, Picasso, Modersohn-Becker and Nicholson, noting the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the intersection of children’s literature with fin-de-siècle artistic trends.

Spis treści

1. Turn-of-the-Century Grotesque: the Uptons’ Golliwogg in Context  2. Henri Rousseau: Jungles Transformed  3. Sir William Nicholson: A Swashbuckling Time  4. Paula Modersohn-Becker: Someone who has a long road in front of her doesn’t run  5. Marc Chagall: I was not born simply to seek pleasure

O autorze

Marilynn Strasser Olson is Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, US. She is the author of Ellen Raskin (1991) and was an editor of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly from 1991–2000.