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Informationen zum Autor Maureen Cox is Reader in Psychology at the University of York. She has published eight books including Visual Order: The Nature and Development of Pictorial Presentation (edited with N. H. Freeman, Cambridge, 1985), The Child's Point of View: The Development of Cognition and Language, 2nd edition (1991), Children's Drawings (1992), and Teaching Young Children to Draw (with G. Cooke and D. Griffin, 1998). Klappentext A lavishly illustrated book giving a comprehensive account of children's understanding and production of pictures. Zusammenfassung This is a lavishly illustrated! comprehensive account of children's understanding and appreciation of art and their developing ability to produce their own pictures. It discusses the main influences on children's picture-making! and considers the intriguing question! does children's art follow the same pattern of development as the history of art? Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Children's understanding of the representational nature of pictures; 3. Children's appreciation; 4. Children's early mark-making; 5. Being realistic; 6. The spatial organisation of the picture; 7. Children's ability to depict expressions of emotion; 8. The development of children's pictures and the history of art; 9. Artistic development in special populations; 10. Cultural influences on children's artwork; 11. Professionals' use of children's drawings; 12. Children's art and education; 13. Picturing the future; Appendix: Theories of visual perception and the perception of pictures; References.
