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When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child

By Jonathan Fineberg (Editor), Rudolf Arnheim (Contribution by), Misty S. Houston (Contribution by), Olga Ivashkevich (Contribution by), Christine Marmé Thompson (Contribution by), Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Contribution by)
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By Jonathan Fineberg (Editor), Rudolf Arnheim (Contribution by), Misty S. Houston (Contribution by), Olga Ivashkevich (Contribution by), Christine Marmé Thompson (Contribution by), Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Contribution by)
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In his last and most overarching essay on the subject, Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of individuality in children's drawings and to recognize the child's creation of "significant form" as a way of bringing coherence to his or her experience of the world. This groundbreaking book brings together distinguished critics and scholars, including Rudolf Arnheim, to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented history. The contributors address central questions of h...