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Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America by Amy
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- ISBN-13
- 9780816679614
- Book Title
- Designing the Creative Child
- ISBN
- 9780816679614
- Publication Year
- 2013
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- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
- Item Height
- 254mm
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Item Width
- 178mm
- Subject
- Architecture, History
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and designers who saw in the next generation promise that appeared to answer the most pressing worries of the age. Designing the Creative Child reveals how a postwar cult of childhood creativity developed and continues to this day. Exploring how the idea of children as imaginative and naturally creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II, Amy F. Ogata argues that educational toys, playgrounds, small middle-class houses, new schools, and children's museums were designed to cultivate imagination in a growing cohort of baby boom children. Enthusiasm for encouraging creativity in children countered Cold War fears of failing competitiveness and the postwar critique of social conformity, making creativity an emblem of national revitalization.Ogata describes how a historically rooted belief in children's capacity for independent thinking was transformed from an elite concern of the interwar years to a fully consumable and aspirational ideal that persists today. From building blocks to Gumby, playhouses to Playskool trains, Creative Playthings to the Eames House of Cards, Crayola fingerpaint to children's museums, material goods and spaces shaped a popular understanding of creativity, and Designing the Creative Child demonstrates how this notion has been woven into the fabric of American culture.
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University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816679614
ISBN-13
9780816679614
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148660239
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Architecture, History
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
254mm
Item Width
178mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture
Content Note
91 Black & White Illustrations, 16 Colour Plates
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Children & Young Adults
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United States
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