Art and human development /
[edited by] Constance Milbrath, Cynthia Lightfoot.
- xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Jean Piaget Symposium series .
- Jean Piaget Symposium series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. Art and human development : introduction / Cynthia Lightfoot and Constance Milbrath -- Ch. 2. Science, religion, and pictures : an origin of image making / J. D. Lewis-Williams -- Ch. 3. Comparative developmental and social perspectives on the mystery of Upper Paleolithic art / Constance Milbrath -- Ch. 4. Hip-hop culture, youth creativity, and the generational crossroads / Murray Forman -- Ch. 5. Commentary : hip-hop culture, youth creativity, and the generational crossroads from a human development perspective / Brian Tinsley, Shaun Wilson and Margaret Beale Spencer -- Ch. 6. "Why should I write?" said the pencil; "what else can you do?" said the knife : or, why I can't tell you why I am a composer / Gerald Levinson 101 -- Ch. 7. Commentary : a view of Levinson's development / Jeanne Bamberger -- Ch. 8. Every shut eye ain't sleep : modeling the scientific from the everyday as cultural process / Carol D. Lee -- Ch. 9. Commentary : adolescents' purposeful lives of culture / Colette Daiute -- Ch. 10. Children as intuitive art critics / Norman H. Freeman -- Ch. 11. Commentary : but is it art? / Alan Costall -- Ch. 12. New lens on the development of social cognition : the study of acting / Thalia Raquel Goldstein and Ellen Winner -- Ch. 13. Commentary : advanced social cognition in the literary arts / Joan Peskin, Raymond A. Mar and Theanna Bischoff.
"Intended for researchers and advanced students in both human development and the arts, this book will also serve as a textbook for advanced courses on psychology and the arts and/or special topics courses in cognitive and/or human development."--BOOK JACKET.