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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792063203321

Autore

Olson Marilynn Strasser

Titolo

Children's culture and the avant-garde : painting in Paris, 1890-1915 / / Marilynn Strasser Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-10936-8

1-299-28026-9

1-136-26949-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Children's literature and culture

Disciplina

809/.89282

Soggetti

Children's literature - History and criticism

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - France - Paris

Art and literature - France - History - 19th century

Art and literature - France - History - 20th century

Children in art

Children in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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