Children's Drawings of the Human Figure
By Maureen V Cox
Series: Essays in Developmental Psychology
- List Price: $65.00
- Web Price: $58.50 (You save $6.50)
- ISBN: 978-0-86377-268-9
- Published by: Psychology Press
- Publication Date: 06/15/1993
- Binding(s): Hardback
About the Book
The human figure is one of the earliest topics drawn by the young child and remains popular throughout childhood and into adolescence. When it first emerges, however, the human figure in the child's drawing is very bizarre: it appears to have no torso and its arms, if indeed it has any, are attached to its head. Even when the figure begins to look more conventional the child must still contend with a variety of problems: for instance, how to draw the head and body in the right proportions and how to draw the figure in action.In this book, Maureen Cox traces the development of the human form in children's drawings; she reviews the literature in the field, criticises a number of major theories which purport to explain the developing child's drawing skills and also presents new data.
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