Images of Childhood
A Visual History From Stone to Screen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Date of Publication: 10 August 2023
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781350299931 |
| ISBN10: | 1350299936 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 280 pages |
| Size: | 246x189 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 150 colour illus |
| 636 |
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Short description:
By surveying historical constructions of childhood, this book explores how representations of the child in visual culture reinforce or challenge the dominant ideology about their innocence.
Long description:
Drawing on a rich legacy of pictorial evidence, Images of Childhood examines historical constructions of childhood and how they reinforce or challenge the prevailing view of childhood as a state of innocence.
Each chapter explores how visual elements such as framing, points-of view, and lighting, as well as clothes, accessories, and body language, help to construct our many different conceptions of children: from members of the family unit and assumed gender roles; to schooling and aesthetic objects; through to their economic value and use in political propaganda.
Skillfully navigating a multitude of perspectives on this topic, Paul Duncum considers both how our ideas, beliefs and values have changed throughout history and how some have remained unchanged. He also explores the cultural notion of "the child within" and how this has contributed to the way adults perceive children. The result is a text far broader in scope than any other in its field, as art history is interweaved with contemporary popular culture to explore how we visually represent childhood. In doing so, the book highlights the real-life implications that these representations have on children's rights.
Each chapter explores how visual elements such as framing, points-of view, and lighting, as well as clothes, accessories, and body language, help to construct our many different conceptions of children: from members of the family unit and assumed gender roles; to schooling and aesthetic objects; through to their economic value and use in political propaganda.
Skillfully navigating a multitude of perspectives on this topic, Paul Duncum considers both how our ideas, beliefs and values have changed throughout history and how some have remained unchanged. He also explores the cultural notion of "the child within" and how this has contributed to the way adults perceive children. The result is a text far broader in scope than any other in its field, as art history is interweaved with contemporary popular culture to explore how we visually represent childhood. In doing so, the book highlights the real-life implications that these representations have on children's rights.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Worthy Subject
2. Family Member
3. Gendered
4. Adult
5. Schooled
6. Aesthetic
7. Victim
8. Threat
9. Economic Entity
10. Political Propaganda
11. Innocent
References
Index
Introduction
1. Worthy Subject
2. Family Member
3. Gendered
4. Adult
5. Schooled
6. Aesthetic
7. Victim
8. Threat
9. Economic Entity
10. Political Propaganda
11. Innocent
References
Index
