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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Child Creativity and the Visual Arts
  name:
    name part: Brandow-Faller, Megan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bloomsbury (Firm)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2025
    edition: 1st edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (265 pages)
  abstract: 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 &&&&&migr&&&&&s Emmy Zweybr&&ock and Viktor Löwenfeld, the author 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, the book 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 &&&&&migr&&&&& 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.
  table of contents: List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Franz Cizek and the 'Discovery' of Child Art in Secessionist Vienna -- 2. Mada Primavesi: Folk Art, Modernism and the Question of a Cizek Style -- 3. Selling the Cult of the Creative Child: Emmy Zweybr&&ock and the Commodification of Child Creativity -- 4. Midcentury Modernism, Race and DIY Culture: The Design Partnership of Nora and Emmy Zweybr&&ock and Ray and Charles Eames -- 5. Viktor Lowenfeld: Creative Practice, Creative Intelligence and Educating the 'Whole Child' in a Fragmented World -- Afterword: Craft Kits, Coloring Books and Children's Art Exhibitions in the Shadow of the Present -- Notes -- Index.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: History of art & design styles: from c 1900-
  subject:
    topic: USA,20th century,21st century
  subject:
    topic: Austria
  subject:
    topic: Material culture
  subject:
    topic: History of education
  subject:
    topic: Decorative arts
  subject:
    topic: Creative ability in children
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Art in education
    topic: History
  classification: BF723.C7 B73 2025
  classification: 153.35
  identifier: 1-350-45682-9
  identifier: 1-350-45680-2
  record info:
    record content source: BLOOM
    record creation date: 250623
    record change date: 20250429134547.0
    record identifier: 99376914214306441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng