"Sara Pankenier Weld argues that its central writers, artists, and theorists self-consciously used an aesthetic inspired by children's art, language, perspective, and logic to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art. She treats the influe…
Lesley Beaumont offers an in-depth study of children and childhood in ancient Athens. It concentrates not only on a child's experience of childhood, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society.
Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but al…
Sargent's painting, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, both explores and defies convention, crossing the boundaries between portrait and genre scene, formal composition and casual snapshot.
"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…
