Depicting Canada's children

Lerner, Loren R. (Loren Ruth), 1948- (Added Author).

Summary: Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the.

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ISBN: 1554580501 (bound)
ISBN: 9781554580507 (bound)
ISBN: 1554582857 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781554582853 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 438 p.) : ill. (some col.)
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Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009.

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General Note:	Multi-User OldControl:muse9781554582853 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Subjects of care. Frocks and bangles: the photographic conversion of two Indian girls / Sharon Murray ; Pictures of health: sick kids exposed / Annmarie Adams, David Theodore and Patricia McKeever ; Healthy bodies, strong citizens: Okanagan children's drawings and the Canadian Junior Red Cross / Andrea N. Walsh ; Children and school interiors: the user-material culture-environment nexus in late nineteenth-century Toronto / Kai Wood Mah -- Inner visions. George Reid's paintings as narratives of a child nation / Loren Lerner ; James Wilson Morrice's Return from school: a modernist image of Quebec children / Sandra Paikowsky ; Something resembling childhood: artworks by Jack Chambers, Daniel Barrow, and Rodney Graham / Johanne Sloan ; The child in me: a figure of photographic creation / Martha Langford ; Paterson Ewen's Portrait of Vincent / Monique Westra.
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Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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