This text places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and painting from several dominant theoretical perspectives. This is followed by an extensive examination of empirical data on the art work of children who are ordinary, talented, emotionally distubed and atypically developed due to mental disability or autism. sophistication with rigorous empirical investigations into the mental processes that underlie the child's drawings. It delineates the evolution of forms,...

This text places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and painting from several dominant theoretical perspectives. This is followed by an extensive examination of empirical data on the art work of children who are ordinary, talented, emotionally distubed and atypically developed due to mental disability or autism. sophistication with rigorous empirical investigations into the mental processes that underlie the child's drawings. It delineates the evolution of forms,...