Childhood by Design
Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present
Herausgeber: Brandow-Faller, Megan
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List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Materializing the History of Childhood and Children
Megan Brandow-Faller, City University of New York Kingsborough, USA
Part I: Inventing the Material Child: Childhood, Consumption and Commodity
Culture
1. Training the Child Consumer: Play, Toys and Learning to Shop in
18th-Century Britain
Serena Dyer, Middlesex University, UK
2. Transitional Pandoras: Dolls in the Long 18th-Century
Ariane Fennetaux, University of Paris, Diderot, France
3. The (Play)things of Childhood: Mass Consumption and Its Critics in Belle
Epoque France
Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University, USA
4. Building Kids: LEGO and the Commodification of Creativity
Colin Fanning, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA
Part II: 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, University of Alberta, Augustana, Canada
6. The Unexpected Victory of Charakter-Puppen: Dolls, Artists, Aesthetics
and Identity in Early 20th-Century Germany
Bryan Ganaway, The College of Charleston, USA
7. Work Becomes Play: Toy Design, Creative Play and Unlearning in the
Bauhaus Legacy
Michelle Millar Fisher, City University of New York, USA
8. Simply Child's Play? Toys, Idealogy,and the Avant-Garde in Socialist
Czechoslovakia before 1968
Cathleen Giustino, Auburn University, USA
9. Reconstructing Domestic Play: The Kaleidoscope House
Karen Stock, Winthrop University, USA and Katherine Wheeler, University of
Miami, USA
Part III: 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 19th Century
James E. Bryan, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
11. Making Paper Models in 1860s New Zealand: An Exploration of Colonial
Culture Through Child-Made Objects
Lynette Townsend, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand
12. Toys for Empire? Material Cultures of Children in Germany and German
Southwest Africa, 1890 to 1918
Jakob Zollman, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Germany
13. Public Nostalgia and the Infantilization of the Russian Peasant: Early
Soviet Reception of Folk Art Toys
Marie Gasper-Hulvat, Kent State University at Stark, USA
14. The 'Appropriate' Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy,
1910-1960s
Valentina Boretti, University of London, UK
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