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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780219403321

Autore

Golomb Claire

Titolo

The child's creation of a pictorial world / / laire Golomb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Psychology Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-135-62945-5

1-299-28527-9

1-135-62946-3

1-4106-0925-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (409 p.)

Disciplina

155.4

Soggetti

Children's drawings - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers, in 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the Second Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 From Action to Representation: The Origins of Early Graphic Forms; 2 The Puzzle of the Tadpole Man; 3 Differentiation of Forms and Early Graphic Models; 4 Space: In Search of the Missing Dimension; 5 Color, Affect, and Expression: The Depiction of Mood and Feelings; 6 Composition: The Creation of Pictorial Space and the Communication of Meaning; 7 Gifted Child Artists; 8 Art, Personality, and Diagnostics; 9 The Child as Art Critic

10 Reflections on Cultural VariablesReferences; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book 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 currently dominant theoretical perspectives. This is followed by an extensive examination of empirical data on the art work of children who are ordinary, talented, emotionally disturbed, and atypically developed due to mental disability or autism. The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World uses a developmental framework that combines theoretical sophistication with rigorous