{"product_id":"childhood-by-design-toys-and-the-material-culture-of-childhood-1700-present","title":"Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--StartFragment --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"pf0\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf0\"\u003eEdited by Megan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf0\"\u003eBrandow\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cf0\"\u003e-Faller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf0\"\u003eInformed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary 'material turn' and social historical studies of childhood, \u003cem\u003eChildhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e offers 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 as objects for a childhood by design-\u003cem\u003eChildhood by Design\u003c\/em\u003e explores dynamic tensions between theory and practice, discursive const\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\" class=\"cf1\"\u003e– critically linking historical discourses of childhood with close study of material objects and design culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eChronologically, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e9 x 6 inches\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eISBN 9781501358890\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eDesign History, Art Education\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--EndFragment --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53874044600488,"sku":"9781501358890","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/files\/Brandow-Faller_Childhood-by-Design.jpg?v=1758467653","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/childhood-by-design-toys-and-the-material-culture-of-childhood-1700-present","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}