1st Edition
Children's Culture and the Avant-Garde Painting in Paris, 1890-1915
By Marilynn Strasser Olson
Copyright 2013
264 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
264 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume explores the mutual influences between children’s literature and the avant-garde. Olson places particular focus on fin-de-siècle Paris, where the Avant-garde was not unified in thought and there was room for modernism to overlap with children’s literature and culture in the Golden Age. The ideas explored by artists such as Florence Upton, Henri Rousseau, Sir William Nicholson, Paula... Read more
1. Turn-of-the-Century Grotesque: the Uptons’ Golliwogg in Context 2. Henri Rousseau: Jungles Transformed 3. Sir William Nicholson: A Swashbuckling Time 4. Paula Modersohn-Becker: Someone who has a long road in front of her doesn’t run 5. Marc Chagall: I was not born simply to seek pleasure
Biography
Marilynn Strasser Olson is Professor of English at Texas State University, San Marcos, US. She is the author of Ellen Raskin (1991) and was an editor of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly from 1991–2000.
