Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde - 9781138548015

Taylor & Francis

Children's Culture and the Avant-GardePainting in Paris, 1890-1915\nAuthor(s): Marilynn Strasser Olson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138548015, 978-1138548015\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores the mutual influences between childrens literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-sicle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with childrens literature and culture in the Golden Age. The ideas explored by artists such as Florence Upton, Henri Rousseau, Sir William Nicholson, Paula Modersohn-Becker, and Marc Chagall had been disseminated widely in cultural productions for children; their work, in turn, influenced childrens culture. These artists turned to childrens culture as a \""new way of seeing,\"" allied to a contemporary interest in international artistic styles. Childrens culture also has strong ties to decadence and to the gro.