"Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde explores the mutual influences between children's literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the avant-garde was not unified in thourght and there was room for modernism to overlap with chil…
This study looks at children's culture in relation to the artists Rousseau, Chagall, Picasso, Modersohn-Becker and Nicholson, noting the qualities of the era that were defined as uniquely childlike, the relation of childhood to high and low art, and the intersection of children'…
This volume explores the mutual influences between children's literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children's literature and culture…
