Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books From University of California Collections, 1550-1990 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Burlingham, Cynthia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133038248X ISBN 13: 9781330382486

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books From University of California Collections, 1550-1990

We want to thank the three curators of the exhibition, Cynthia Burling ham and Karen Mayers of the Grunwald Center and Patricia Waldron, for their imaginative response to a burgeoning field of study and an immense archive of materials. We also thank Director Peter Reill and Librarian Bruce Whiteman of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, ucla, and University Librarian Gerald Lowell and Head of the Department of Special Collections Lynda Claassen of the Geisel Library of the University of California, San Diego. Major support for the exhibition was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a fed eral agency; Northern Trust Bank of California; Classical kkgo-fm', and the Good Works Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Frances and Sidney Brody Charitable Fund; Peter and Elizabeth Goulds and l.a. Louver Gallery, Venice, California; Mary and Bob Looker; and Susan Payne.

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Cynthia Burlingham has been director of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts since 2004 and deputy director of collections at the Hammer Museum since 1999. Her research focuses primarily on the history of European prints from the sixteenth through the twentieth century, with additional focus on the development of visual culture and printed books. Recent publications include "The French Renaissance in Prints" (1995); "Picturing Childhood: Illustrated Children's Books from University of California Collections" (1997); "The World from Here: Treasures of the Great Libraries of Los Angeles" (2001); "The Eunice and Hal David Collections of Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Works on Paper" (2004), and "Masters of American Comics" (2006). Victoria Steele" heads the Department of Special Collections in the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, where she created and also serves as director of the Center for Primary Research and Training. Coauthor of an award-winning book on library development and a former Fulbright Fellow to the United Kingdom, she holds a doctorate in art history and writes about both special collections and art topics. Marc Treib is professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley; a practicing designer; and a frequent contributor to architecture, landscape, and design journals.He has held Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Japan Foundation fellowships, as well as an advanced design fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Recent publications include "Noguchi in Paris: The Unesco Garden" (2003); "Thomas Church, Landscape Architect: Designing a Modern California Landscape" (2004); "The Donnell and Eckbo Gardens: Modern California Masterworks" (2005); and "Settings and Stray Paths: Writings on Landscape Architecture"

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 133038248X
• ISBN 13: 9781330382486
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72