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020			_a9781501358890
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
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245			_aChildhood by design _btoys and the material culture of childhood, 1700-present _cedited by Megan Brandow-Faller
260			_bBloomsbury Visual Arts _c2018 _aNew York
300			_axviii, 332p
440			_aMaterial culture of art and design
490			_a/ edited by Michael Yonan
520			_aInformed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offer new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children. This volume situates toys and design culture for children within broader narratives on history, art, design, and the decorative arts, where toy design has traditionally been viewed as an aberration from more serious pursuits. The essays included treat toys not merely as unproblematic reflections of socio-cultural constructions of childhood but consider how design culture actively shaped, commodified, and materialized shifting discursive constellations surrounding childhood and children. Focusing on the new array of material objects designed in response to the modern 'invention' of childhood-what we might refer to them as objects for childhood by design-Childhood by Design explores dynamic tensions between theory and practice, discursive constructions and lived experience as embodied in the material culture of childhood. Contributions from and between a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including history, art history, material cultural studies, decorative arts, design history, and childhood studies) are represented – critically linking historical discourses of childhood with a close study of material objects and design culture. Chronologically, the volume spans the 18th century, which witnessed the invention of the toy as an educational plaything and a proliferation of new material artifacts designed expressly for children's use; through the 19th-century expansion of factory-based methods of toy production facilitating accuracy in miniaturization and a new vocabulary of design objects coinciding with the recognition of childhood innocence and physical separation within the household; towards the intersection of early 20th-century child-centered pedagogy and modernist approaches to nursery and furniture design; through the changing consumption and sales practices of the postwar period marketing directly to children through television, film and other digital media; and into the present, where the line between the material culture of childhood and adulthood is increasingly blurred.
650			_aMaterial culture
650			_aToys
650			_aChildren
650			_aPlay
650			_aChildren's paraphernalia
700			_aBrandow-Faller, Megan [ed.]
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