The Child's Creation of A Pictorial World - Hardcover

Golomb, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 080584371X ISBN 13: 9780805843712

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book places child art within the broader context of children's creative intelligence and intrinsic motivation to invent a pictorial world. It examines the development of drawing and painting from several currently dominant theoretical perspectives. This is followed by an extensive examination of empirical data on the art work of children who are ordinary, talented, emotionally disturbed, and atypically developed due to mental disability or autism.

The Child's Creation of a Pictorial World uses a developmental framework that combines theoretical sophistication with rigorous empirical investigations into the mental processes that underlie the child's drawings. It delineates the evolution of forms, the pictorial differentiation of figures and their spatial relations, the role of color in narrative descriptions, and its expressive function. Artistic development across all these dimensions is seen as a meaningful mental activity that serves cognitive, affective, and aesthetic functions.

About this title

About the Author:

Claire Golomb is a Professor Emerita of the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts. For over 40 years she taught courses on child development to undergraduate and graduate students of psychology. Her research during those years focused on symbol formation in child art, make-believe play, story construction and the role of gender in those domains. She resides in Waban, Massachusetts.

Claire Golomb is Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Review:

Golomb has given us a landmark book in this area, one that continues to deserve a place in every library, but one that, inevitably, like every fine and even comprehensive work, must perforce stimulate continuing forays and endeavors vis-à-vis its fascinating subject matter, particularly from discrepant vantage points.
—Journal of Aesthetic Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 080584371X
• ISBN 13: 9780805843712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 408