Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz PhD Издательство: Страниц: 214 ISBN: 0472117548
Описание
"A brilliant and daring book on how art reveals life, how it illuminates childhood beyond what the sciences of development can tell us."---Jerome Bruner, University Professor, New York University"Combining the surgical precision of a psychoanalytically informed critic with the oracular eloquence of a brilliant close reader, Ellen Handler Spitz reads our cultural fortunes about childhood and parenting through works of art. Moving us (in both senses of the term) from the serene plenitude of Piero della Francesca's Madonna of Childbirth to the unsparing horror of Lessing's Fifth Child, she reveals just how powerfully art puts us in touch with the pulsing energies of real life."---Maria Tatar, John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University "Illuminating Childhood is a wonderfully well-written and researched interdisciplinary study of childhood in various media and mediums as well as through ethnicity, race, gender, cultures, and time."---T. Denean...
