{"product_id":"child-creativity-and-the-visual-arts","title":"Child Creativity and the Visual Arts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking the reader through the ideas of three artistic visionaries and their students \u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e Franz Cižek, and Austrian-American émigrés Emmy Zweybrück and Viktor Löwenfeld \u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross 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, \u003ci\u003eChild Creativity and the Visual Arts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503577768309,"sku":"9781350456839","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350456839.jpg?v=1786867284","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/child-creativity-and-the-visual-arts","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}