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020			_a9781452939247
020			_a1452939241
020			_z9780816679607 (hardback)
020			_z9780816679614 (pb)
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050	0	0	_aHQ792.U5 _bO39 2013
082	0	0	_a155.4/13550973 _223
100	1		_aOgata, Amy Fumiko, _d1965-
245	1	0	_aDesigning the creative child _h[electronic resource] : _bplaythings and places in midcentury America / _cAmy F. Ogata.
260			_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490	0		_aArchitecture, landscape, and American culture
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- 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.
520			_a" 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. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-). _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aDesign _xHuman factors _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPlay environments _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCreative ability in children _zUnited States.
650		0	_aChildren _zUnited States _xSocial conditions _y20th century.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781452939247/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c34020 _d34020