"Drawing on hundreds of tombstones from Rome, Italy and the Western provinces, this study assesses how parents visualised childhood. By considering the most popular funerary themes and iconographic models, it emphasises both the emotional and social investment placed in children…
Childhood traumas: narratives and representations
This volume contributes to understanding childhoods in the twentieth and twenty-first century by offering an in-depth overview of children and their engagement with the violent world around them. The chapters deal with different historical, spatial, and cultural contexts, yet co…
The strange saga of the famous kitsch artists, the Keanes, soon to beseen in the forthcoming movie Big Eyes.
Though he often described himself as a masterful artist comparable to Michelangelo, Walter was best skilled in his promotion of mechanically reproduced art. Keane was able to sell millions of lithographs and postcards with art bearing his name, most eventually finding themselves…
The strange saga of the famous kitsch artists, the Keanes, soon to be seen in the forthcoming movie Big Eyes.
Peter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569), with his canvases of peasants in the fields and squares of Flanders, is was one of the world's great painters. Here Edward Snow undertakes a sustained meditation on a single Bruegel painting--the kaleidoscopic CHILDREN'S GAMES. This elegantly…
In this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, one of the great children's portraitists covers every aspect of painting and drawing children. He starts by showing how children's anatomy differs from that of adults and telling how to get to know the child.
Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from de…
