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Patterns of artistic development in children : comparative studies of talent / Constance Milbrath.

By: Milbrath, Constance, 1943-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998Description: xvi, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 052144313X .Subject(s): Child artists -- Psychology | Creative ability in childrenDDC classification: 704.054
Contents:
Part I: The representation of form and space -- Perspectives on Drawing: Deriving a Developmental model for artistic talent -- Samples and methods for the spontaneous drawings studies -- From line to representation -- The human figure -- The evolution of a single viewpoint -- Putting pictorial space together -- Part II: Composition -- Composing the picture -- Conducting the composition study: Methods and Procedures -- The composition studies.
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This book traces the development of artistic talent from early childhood to adolescence through a series of studies that look comparatively at development in talented and less-talented populations. It presents a model of artistic talent that attributes individual differences to the figurative abilities of talented children. The model proposes that artistic talent results from the continual coordination of heightened figurative abilities with conceptual processes throughout a period critical in semiotic development. The studies focus on the development of form, spatial relationships and composition. Milbrath's theory is richly supported by original examples of children's artwork.

Bibliography: (pages 401-415) and index.

Part I: The representation of form and space -- Perspectives on Drawing: Deriving a Developmental model for artistic talent -- Samples and methods for the spontaneous drawings studies -- From line to representation -- The human figure -- The evolution of a single viewpoint -- Putting pictorial space together -- Part II: Composition -- Composing the picture -- Conducting the composition study: Methods and Procedures -- The composition studies.

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This book suggests that artistic talent results from the continual coordination of heightened fugitive abilities with conceptual processes throughout a period critical in semiotic development. The first part focuses on children's abilities to construct forms and coordinate spatial relationships among elements in their drawings. The second, shorter part examines children's ability to compose visually balanced artwork. The study methods combine two approaches, the first common in developmental psychology and the second that of a naturalist, to produce both a retrospective and prospective longitudinal view, as well as a cross-sectional view that traces the development of spontaneous or free drawings a child creates naturally. Milbrath ( psychiatry, Univ. of California, San Francisco) proposes two contrasting developmental trajectories, positing that what differentiates the two groups of children is not their intellectual or operative abilities but their figurative abilities, and that heightened perceptual and/or visual memory abilities of talented children function to direct their attention toward the visual arts. Her decision to study spontaneous drawings allows a richer and more complex phenomenon to be studied than would be possible from experimental studies. Milbrath's theory is richly supported by original examples of children's artwork. Recommended for all college and university libraries. Undergraduates and above. L. R. Baxter; University of Victoria

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