{"product_id":"child-creativity-and-the-visual-arts-from-secessionist-vienna-to-postwar-america","title":"Child Creativity and the Visual Arts: From Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Megan Brandow-Faller   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The strength of Brandow-Faller's study lies in its ability to yoke together disparate cultural realms-Secessionist Vienna and postwar American childhood, and vastly successful designers and pedagogues with those largely forgotten-to reveal surprising and fascinating points of connection.” ―Laura Morowitz, Associate Professor of Art History at Wagner College, New York\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A deeply informed examination of three visionary art educators from Vienna-Franz Cizek, Emmy Zweybruck, and Viktor Lownfeld-and their profound influence on progressive art education in the United States.” ―Ellen Winner, Professor Emerita, Psychology \u0026amp; Neuroscience,\u003cem\u003e Boston College\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Insightful and compelling, this book draws on previously unexamined sources to explore how three educators disseminated, popularized, and commodified ideas of child art from the Vienna Secession to mid-century modernism.” ―Mary Ann Stankiewicz, Emerita Professor of Art Education, \u003cem\u003ePenn State University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracing the dissemination of Secessionist ideas of child creativity – from their origination in early-20th century Vienna through to their eventual commodification in postwar America – this book highlights the central role that visual art has played in child education and in nurturing creativity in elementary and preschool curricula.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaking the reader through the ideas of three artistic visionaries and their students – Franz Cižek, and Austrian-American émigrés Emmy Zweybrück and Viktor Löwenfeld – this book reveals how these ideas developed in postwar America through a focus on child-centered methods of 'learning by doing' in artistic practice. By centring the visual arts as a vital educational medium, we see how these teachings have been popularized as a means of nurturing creativity in childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross three chapter length case studies, interspersed with three 'mini chapters' on the reception of each artist-educator's radical teachings in the American education system, \u003cem\u003eChild Creativity and the Visual Arts\u003c\/em\u003e provides new interpretations into the impact of these three luminaries' differing philosophies on a broader program of socio-political activism in the USA. Drawing on previously untapped archival and primary source materials, it blends deep material culture analysis with narrative elements to present a compelling account of the unrecognized influence of émigré art pedagogy on progressive, international art education. In doing so, it provides fresh transregional and thematic perspectives on early-1900s Vienna as a hotbed of creative and cultural experimentation and 'mecca' of progressive art education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback\u003cbr\u003e264 pages | 70 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003eBloomsbury, 2025\u003cbr\u003e9 x 6 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781350456792\u003cbr\u003eViennese History, Secession\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516269453480,"sku":"9781350456792","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/9781350456792_Child_Creativity_and_the_Visual_Arts.jpg?v=1755699835","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/child-creativity-and-the-visual-arts-from-secessionist-vienna-to-postwar-america","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}