Child Creativity and the Visual Arts: From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 21 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350456792
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 236x162x22 mm
- Weight 664 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 70 colour illus. 700
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Long description:
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.
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 Zweybrück and the Commodification of Child Creativity
4. Midcentury Modernism, Race and DIY Culture: The Design Partnership of Nora and Emmy Zweybrück 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
