Autism, Art, and Children: The Stories We Draw (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780897897358)

Rather than approaching the art of precocious young artists with autism as enigmatic and symptomatic, their work is explored as having its origin in human physiology and in the intrinsic human need for meaning. The narrative images in these young artists' exceptional art serve as both evidence and focus, allowing us to see the commonalities of all art and image-making. No art has been considered more enigmatic than that of young children with autism, for their often extremely early drawings intrigue viewers with their vivid, visually-based, perspective emphasis.

Such art, often spontaneously produced by artists frequently considered retarded, is difficult to understand within the usual constructs of drawing pedagogy that emphasizes the necessity of practice and experience for mastery. However, it is a useful means of expressing one's interior self and of sharing with others a tale of one's own creation. Finally, this expression forms enduring links with other people in the common human language of lines and forms.

Author: Julia Kellamn,Julia Kellman
ISBN-10: 0897897358
ISBN-13: 9780897897358
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2001
Pages: 160
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.42w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 09/01/2001 pg. 114