Understanding Children's Drawings: Tracing the Path of Incarnation

It is not uncommon for children's drawings to end up in the wastepaper basket. Yet these early artistic expressions indicate how children communicate with their environment. From the first scratches and scribbles to the detailed sketches of houses and people, the drawings and paintings of our young ones are significant manifestations of inner processes, containing important statements about their development and gradual incarnation into a physical body. Michaela Strauss's classic work is a pioneer study that can strengthen observation, understanding and love for the being of the child, both in the home and the kindergarten. First issued in 1978, it is republished here with revisions, improved reproductions, a larger format and more than 40 pages of colour illustrations.

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Understanding Children's Drawings: Tracing the Path of Incarnation

It is not uncommon for children's drawings to end up in the wastepaper basket. Yet these early artistic expressions indicate how children communicate with their environment. From the first scratches and scribbles to the detailed sketches of houses and people, the drawings and paintings of our young ones are significant manifestations of inner processes, containing important statements about their development and gradual incarnation into a physical body. Michaela Strauss's classic work is a pioneer study that can strengthen observation, understanding and love for the being of the child, both in the home and the kindergarten. First issued in 1978, it is republished here with revisions, improved reproductions, a larger format and more than 40 pages of colour illustrations.

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Understanding Children's Drawings: Tracing the Path of Incarnation

Understanding Children's Drawings: Tracing the Path of Incarnation

Understanding Children's Drawings: Tracing the Path of Incarnation

Understanding Children's Drawings: Tracing the Path of Incarnation

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Overview

It is not uncommon for children's drawings to end up in the wastepaper basket. Yet these early artistic expressions indicate how children communicate with their environment. From the first scratches and scribbles to the detailed sketches of houses and people, the drawings and paintings of our young ones are significant manifestations of inner processes, containing important statements about their development and gradual incarnation into a physical body. Michaela Strauss's classic work is a pioneer study that can strengthen observation, understanding and love for the being of the child, both in the home and the kindergarten. First issued in 1978, it is republished here with revisions, improved reproductions, a larger format and more than 40 pages of colour illustrations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781855845961
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Publication date: 01/11/2022
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 8.03(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Michaela Strauss built on the work of her father Hanns Strauss, a painter and art teacher who collected thousands of children's drawings and compared and evaluated them. Stimulated by Rudolf Steiner's pedagogical lecture course The Foundations of Human Experience (CW 293), this research became her father's consuming interest. Following his early death, Michaela continued his research and brought it to publication.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition Margret Costantini 7

Preface to the First Edition Ernst Weiβert 9

How this Book Arose 11

The Forces at Work in the Drawing of Pre-school Age Children 15

I Line and Movement

Components of Pre-school Age Children's Drawings 23

The Picture of Man and the Picture of the Tree 37

The Human Being and the House 51

Head-and-Feet People-Head-and-Limb People 59

II From Line to Surface

Colour as the Medium of Soul Expression 63

III From Symbol to Illustration

Graphic-illustrative Compositions 71

Notes on the Study of Man Wolfgang Schad 85

Bibliography 95

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