Representations of Art and Art Museums in Children's Picture Books

by Perry Nodelman

What happens when the assumptions and practices of museum curators and art educators intersect with the assumptions and practices of publishing for children? This study explores how over three hundred children's picture books, most of them published in the last three decades in English, introduce children to art and art museums. It considers how the books emerge from and relate to a range of theories and assumptions about childhood and childhood development,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350442313
• ISBN13: 9781350442313
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"