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Childhood by design : toys and the material culture of childhood, 1700-present / edited by Megan Brandow-Faller.

Childhood by design : toys and the material culture of childhood, 1700-present / edited by Megan Brandow-Faller.
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ISBN 9781501332029 (hardback : alk. paper)
Title Childhood by design : toys and the material culture of childhood, 1700-present / edited by Megan Brandow-Faller.
Publisher and/or associated date/s New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Description xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Material culture of art and design
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. 1 Inventing the Material Child: Childhood, Consumption, and Commodity Culture -- 1.Training the Child Consumer: Play, Toys, and Learning to Shop in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Serena Dyer -- 2.Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long Eighteenth Century / Ariane Fennetaux -- 3.The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle Epoque France / Sarah A. Curtis -- 4.Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity / Colin Fanning.
Pt. 2 Child's Play? Avant-Garde and Reform Toy Design -- 5.Cultivating Aesthetic Ways of Looking: Walter Crane, Flora's Feast, and the Possibilities of Children's Literature / Andrea Korda -- 6.The Unexpected Victory of Character-Puppen: Dolls, Aesthetics, and Gender in Imperial Germany / Bryan Ganaway -- 7.Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play, and Unlearning in the Bauhaus Legacy / Michelle Millar Fisher --8.Simply Child's Play? Toys, Ideology, and the Avant-Garde in Socialist Czechoslovakia before 1968 / Cathleen M. Giustino -- 9.Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope House / Katherine Wheeler.
Pt. 3 Toys, Play, and Design Culture as Instruments of Political and Ideological Indoctrination -- 10.Material Culture in Miniature: Nuremberg Kitchens as Inspirational Toys in the Long Nineteenth Century / James E. Bryan -- 11.Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial Culture through Child-Made Objects / Lynette Townsend -- 12.Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German Southwest Africa, 1890-1918 / Jakob Zollmann -- 13.Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early Soviet Reception of Folk Art Toys / Marie Gasper-Hulvat -- 14.The "Appropriate" Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910s-1960s / Valentina Boretti.
Subjects Toys -- History
Children's paraphernalia -- History
Material culture -- History
Play -- History
Children -- History
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Brandow-Faller, Megan (editor.)
Call number 2018.440
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