Drawing and Painting: Children and Visual Representation
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The author questions inherited wisdom about children's development in visual representation. The traditional approach describes children's development in terms of supposed deficits in which children progress from 'primitive' earlier stages to 'superior' ones, until they arrive at an endpoint of 'visual realism'. The author explains different models of development in visual expression. Instead of measuring children's efforts against an adult paradigm, the new models identify the modes of representation used by children as consequences of children's own intentions, motivations, and priorities.
Series PrefacePrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction11Painting in Action92Actions, Skills and Meaning373The Beginning of Painting and Drawing514Movement into Shape615Seeing and Knowing916Space and Time1117The Origin of Literacy: Young Children Learn to Read1428Children Begin to Show Depth in their Drawings1559Why Do Many Children Give Up Drawing and Painting? What Can We Do to Help?195References213Index220
