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Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture Ser.: Designing the Creative Child : Playthings and Places in Midcentury America by Amy F. Ogata (2013, Hardcover)

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Since 2001. ISBN : 0816679606. Pages : 320. Publication Date : 2013-04-15. Condition : Good.

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The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and designers who saw in the next generation promise that appeared to answer the most pressing worries of the age. Designing the Creative Child reveals how a postwar cult of childhood creativity developed and continues to this day. Exploring how the idea of children as imaginative and naturally creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II, Amy F. Ogata argues that educational toys, playgrounds, small middle-class houses, new schools, and children's museums were designed to cultivate imagination in a growing cohort of baby boom children. Enthusiasm for encouraging creativity in children countered Cold War fears of failing competitiveness and the postwar critique of social conformity, making creativity an emblem of national revitalization. Ogata describes how a historically rooted belief in children's capacity for independent thinking was transformed from an elite concern of the interwar years to a fully consumable and aspirational ideal that persists today. From building blocks to Gumby, playhouses to Playskool trains, Creative Playthings to the Eames House of Cards, Crayola fingerpaint to children's museums, material goods and spaces shaped a popular understanding of creativity, and Designing the Creative Child demonstrates how this notion has been woven into the fabric of American culture.

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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816679606
ISBN-13
9780816679607
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150623216

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Author
Amy F. Ogata
Publication Name
Designing the Creative Child : Playthings and Places in Midcentury America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Series
Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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10in
Item Height
1.5in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
0 Oz

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Hq792.U5o39 2013
Reviews
"Amy Ogata's Designing the Creative Child is an exceptionally interesting book on the development of both child psychology and playthings in America during the baby boom years following World War II. A delightfully educational book."-- Life Long Dewey (blog) "Amy Ogata . . . argues that American worries about conformity--as well as the nation's Cold War rivalry with the totalitarian Soviet Union--persuaded parents that their children's creative impulses could, and should, be encouraged."-- Boston Globe "This well-researched and clearly written history of the responses of designers and architects to advice from psychologists on ways to encourage creativity in young children in Cold War America is a welcome addition to cultural history, architectural and design history, the study of material culture, and child psychology. [Ogata's] broad knowledge of art and architecture contributes to the success of her foray into the history of toys, playrooms, playgrounds, schoolrooms, and children's museums."-- Journal of American History "An insightful investigation into the development and marketing of objects and spaces for children aimed at satisfying parental desires to promote creativity in the children of mid-century America."-- Art Libraries Society of North America "Featuring extensive illustrations of toy advertisements, product designs, and blueprints, this highly informative book has an extensive bibliography and notes."-- CHOICE " Designing the Creative Child is a valuable and inspiring resource for scholars and professionals in child related research."-- The Architect's Newspaper "Ogata's book is well researched, well written, and beautifully illustrated--and truly innovative in its depiction of how a generation of toy designers, architects, and museum curators gave shape to their faith in youthful creativity."-- American Journal of Play "Lucid and engaging, Ogata's assiduously researched study sheds a much-needed light on its origins and development and contributes significantly to our understanding of everyday design in the dynamics of postwar cultural change."-- Buildings & Landscapes "Ogata brings her research together in an exciting way by examining childhood creativity as an idealized attribute developed in the multi-faceted dimensionality of material culture--from television programming and toy design to suburan homes, school buildings and museum exhibition design. The book is richly illustrated and is in conversation with other multi-disciplinary books that address aspects of the post-war era, consumerism, architecture, suburbia and school design."-- Journal of Design History "This study offers us innovative ways of understanding efforts to shape childhood that we might consider adopting more fully."-- Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth "A tight, timely study."-- Art Review "An important contribution."-- Winterthur Portfolio "Beautifully illustrated and superbly written."-- Daniella On Design
Table of Content
Contents Introduction: Object Lessons 1. Constructing Creativity in Postwar America 2. Educational Toys and Creative Playthings 3. Creative Living at Home 4. Building Creativity in Postwar Schools 5. Learning Imagination in Art and Science Epilogue: The Legacy of Consuming Creativity Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
History & Criticism, Children's Studies, United States / 20th Century, History / Contemporary (1945-)
Lccn
2012-050732
Dewey Decimal
155.4/13550973
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Design, Architecture, History, Social Science

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