The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and the Modern Artist

by Jonathan Fineberg

Book Overview

"When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael. It took me many years to learn how to draw like these children."--Pablo Picasso, upon viewing an exhibition of children's drawings, as quoted by Sir Herbert Read in 1945 The idea that modern art looks like something a child can do is a long-standing clich . For some modernists, however, the connection between their work and children's art was direct and explicit. This groundbreaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691016852
• ISBN13: 9780691016856
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.8" x 11.8"