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Child creativity and the visual arts
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- Book Synopsis
- Tracing the dissemination of Secessionist ideas of child creativity - from their origination in early-20th century Vienna through to their eventual commodification in postwar America - this book highlights the central role that visual art has played in child education and in nurturing creativity in elementary and preschool curricula. Taking the reader through the ideas of three artistic visionaries and their students - Franz Cizek, and Austrian-American émigrés Emmy Zweybrück and Viktor Löwenfeld - this book reveals how these ideas developed in postwar America through a focus on child-centered methods of 'learning by doing' in artistic practice. By centring the visual arts as a vital educational medium, we see how these teachings have been popularized as a means of nurturing creativity in childhood. Across three chapter length case studies, interspersed with three 'mini chapters' on the reception of each artist-educator's radical teachings in the American education system, Child Creativity and the Visual Arts provides new interpretations into the impact of these three luminaries' differing philosophies on a broader program of socio-political activism in the USA. Drawing on previously untapped archival and primary source materials, it blends deep material culture analysis with narrative elements to present a compelling account of the unrecognized influence of émigré art pedagogy on progressive, international art education. In doing so, it provides fresh transregional and thematic perspectives on early-1900s Vienna as a hotbed of creative and cultural experimentation and 'mecca' of progressive art education.
- About The Author
- Megan Brandow-Faller is Professor of History, CUNY Kingsborough, USA, and the author of Childhood by Design (Bloomsbury, 2018) and The Female Secession (2020). She is the co-editor of Erasures and Eradications in Modern Viennese Art Architecture and Design (2022) and participated in the Jewish Migration Working Group at the Center for Jewish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center.
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- ISBN
- 9781350456792
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts, (21 August 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 664 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 236 x 162 x 22 mm
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