Images of Childhood by Duncum, Paul;

A Visual History From Stone to Screen

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Product details:

Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Date of Publication 10 August 2023
Number of Volumes Hardback

ISBN 9781350299931
Binding Hardback
No. of pages280 pages
Size 250x192x20 mm
Weight 940 g
Language English
Illustrations 150 colour illus

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.