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Art and human development / edited by Constance Milbrath, Cynthia Lightfoot.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Jean Piaget Symposium seriesPublication details: Hove : Psychology, 2009.Description: 224 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415965538 (hbk.) :
  • 9780415965538 (Cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.35 MIL
LOC classification:
  • BF408 .A726 2009
Contents:
1.Art and human developmetn: introduction. Cynthia Lightfoot and Constance Milbraith -- Part I.Art in the context of culture -- 2.Science, religion, and pictures: an origin of image making. J. D. Lewis-Williams -- 3.Comparative developmental and social perspectives on the mystery of Upper Paleolithic art. Constance Milbrath -- 4.Hip-hop culture, youth creativity, and the generational crossroads. Murray Forman -- 5.Commentary: hip-hop culture, youth creativity, and the generational crossroads from a human development perspective. Brian Tinsley, Shaun Wilson, and Margaret Beale Spencer -- Part II.Educating the artists and using the arts to educate -- 6.Why should I write? siad the pencil. What else can you do? said the knife: Or, why I can\'t tell you why I am a composer. Gerald Levinson -- 7.Commentary: a view of Levinson\'s development. Jeanne Bamberger -- 8.Every shut eye ain\'t sleep: modeling the scientidic from the everyday as cultural process. Carol D. Lee -- 9.Commentary: adolescents\' purposeful uses of culture. Colette Daiute -- Part III.Artistic development. -- 10.Children as intuitive art critics. Norman H. Freeman -- 11.Commentary: But is it art? Alan Costall -- 12.A new lens on the development of social cognition: the study of acting. Thalia Raquel Goldstein and Ellen Winner -- 13.Commentary: advanced social cognition in the literary arts. Joan Peskin, Raymond A. Mar and Theanna Bischoff.
Summary: This interdisciplinary exploration of art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge explores the origins of art in children, a culture, and in mankind.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 153.35 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215356

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1.Art and human developmetn: introduction. Cynthia Lightfoot and Constance Milbraith -- Part I.Art in the context of culture -- 2.Science, religion, and pictures: an origin of image making. J. D. Lewis-Williams -- 3.Comparative developmental and social perspectives on the mystery of Upper Paleolithic art. Constance Milbrath -- 4.Hip-hop culture, youth creativity, and the generational crossroads. Murray Forman -- 5.Commentary: hip-hop culture, youth creativity, and the generational crossroads from a human development perspective. Brian Tinsley, Shaun Wilson, and Margaret Beale Spencer -- Part II.Educating the artists and using the arts to educate -- 6.Why should I write? siad the pencil. What else can you do? said the knife: Or, why I can\'t tell you why I am a composer. Gerald Levinson -- 7.Commentary: a view of Levinson\'s development. Jeanne Bamberger -- 8.Every shut eye ain\'t sleep: modeling the scientidic from the everyday as cultural process. Carol D. Lee -- 9.Commentary: adolescents\' purposeful uses of culture. Colette Daiute -- Part III.Artistic development. -- 10.Children as intuitive art critics. Norman H. Freeman -- 11.Commentary: But is it art? Alan Costall -- 12.A new lens on the development of social cognition: the study of acting. Thalia Raquel Goldstein and Ellen Winner -- 13.Commentary: advanced social cognition in the literary arts. Joan Peskin, Raymond A. Mar and Theanna Bischoff.

This interdisciplinary exploration of art, its development, and its role in the construction of knowledge explores the origins of art in children, a culture, and in mankind.

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