Description - Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde by Marilynn Strasser Olson
The avant-garde is often associated with primitivism, and childhood is one of the primitive sites in which the avant-garde was interested. Neither art historians nor children's literature specialists have explored this connection, and yet the material on either side of the divide is well loved and known to many people. In this study, Olson looks at children's culture in relation to the painters 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's literature with fin-de-siecle artistic trends. The avant-garde is often associated with primitivism, and childhood is one of the primitive sites in which the avant-garde was interested. Neither art historians nor children's literature specialists have explored this connection, and yet the material on either side of the divide is well loved and known to many people.
In this study, Olson looks at children's culture in relation to the painters 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's literature with fin-de-siecle artistic trends.
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