The Pictorial World Of The Child

by Maureen Cox

• ISBN13: 9780521531986
• ISBN10: 0521531985
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-12
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this lavishly illustrated book, Maureen Cox gives a comprehensive and scholarly account of children's understanding and appreciation of art and their developing ability to produce their own pictures. She discusses the main influences on children's picture-making, including the popular media, adults' examples and other children's pictures. As well as discussing the artistic development of typically developing children, the book also includes a discussion of children with intellectual disabilities and those with a talent for art, some of whom are children with autism. We tend to think of pictures as a strictly visual medium, but the section on blind children's ability to recognise pictures challenges this assumption. Cox evaluates the way that various professional groups use children's pictures, for example to aid recall of past events. Finally, she discusses the art curricula in different countries and different educational philosophies and suggests ways in which these different approaches could be evaluated.

Table of Contents

List of plates	viii
List of figures	ix
List of tables	xxiii
Acknowledgements	xxiv
Introduction	1	(7)
Children's understanding of the representational nature of pictures	8	(18)
Children's appreciation of pictures	26	(22)
Children's early mark-making	48	(23)
Being realistic	71	(29)
The spatial organisation of the picture	100	(32)
Children's ability to depict expressions of emotion	132	(21)
The development of children's pictures and the history of art	153	(27)
Artistic development in special populations	180	(28)
Cultural influences on children's artwork	208	(32)
Professionals' use of children's drawings	240	(23)
Children's art and education	263	(28)
Picturing the future	291	(8)
Appendix: Theories of visual perception and the perception of pictures	299	(6)
References	305	(42)
Index	347