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Art Critics in the Cradle: Fin-de-Siècle Painting Books and the Move to Modernism
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 43, 2015
- pp. 161-181
- 10.1353/chl.2015.0011
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This paper argues early British painting books are important threshold texts. In content and form, they bridge artistic movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—from Pre-Raphaelitism to modernism—and demonstrate a shift in constructions of child artists—from ideas of the young as artists-in-training to modernist paradigms of the “innocent eye.”