The New Child: British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730–1830 by James Christen Steward

The New Child explores the rise of modern ideas of childhood through the lens of 18th- and 19th-century British art. A time of extraordinary change, this period emerges as one in which childhood first came to be valued as a special and distinct phase of human life. Through the work of leading artists such as William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, and Thomas Lawrence, The New Child examines the complex relationship between the visual arts and social values, a relationship in which artists both helped shape and mirrored social change. Richly illustrated, this catalog breaks new ground in using social history to enlarge our understanding of the visual arts, and in combining works of high art and popular culture in the same study.



$35.00, paperback
240 pages, 51 color and 109 black-and-white illustrations
University of California, University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, in association with the University of Washington Press, 1995

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