Patterns of Artistic Development in Children:

This book traces the development of artistic talent from early childhood to adolescence through a series of studies that look comparatively at development in talented and less-talented populations. It presents a model of artistic talent that attributes individual differences to the figurative abilities of talented children. The model proposes that artistic talent results from the continual coordination of heightened figurative abilities with conceptual processes throughout a period critical in semiotic development. The studies focus on the development of form, spatial relationships and composition. Milbrath's theory is richly supported by original examples of children's artwork.

List of Tables	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Representation of Form and Space
Perspective on Drawing: Deriving a Developmental Model for Artistic Talent	p. 3
The Role of Figurative and Operative Processes in Talent: A Working Hypothesis	p. 9
Conception, Perception, and Production in Children's Drawings	p. 13
The Role of Visual Exploration, Memory, and Representation in Drawing	p. 29
Summary and Predictions	p. 41
Samples and Methods for the Spontaneous Drawings Studies	p. 46
Identifying Talent	p. 46
Sampling and Design for Studies	p. 49
From Line to Representaion	p. 61
The Elements of Drawing	p. 64
Line, Shape, and Plane in the Spontaneous Drawings Studies	p. 67
Qualitative Illustrations of Similarities and Differences in Drawings of Talented Less Talented Children	p. 80
Conclusions	p. 95
The Human Figure	p. 98
The Human Figure Emerges	p. 98
Development of Figure Proportions	p. 111
Development of Figure Rotation in the Spontaneous Drawings Studies	p. 115
Case Studies of the Development of Rotation in Talented Children	p. 134
The Evolution of Single Viewpoint	p. 146
Toward Realism in Representing Space	p. 148
Tracing the Development of Perspective in the Spontaneous Drawings Studies	p. 156
Case Studies of the Development of Perfective Drawing	p. 182
Conclusions	p. 200
Putting Pictorial Space Together	p. 213
Developmental Change	p. 215
Development Rate in the Spontaneous Drawings Studies	p. 224
Individual Trajectories for Talented Children	p. 230
Composition
Composing the Picture	p. 257
Principles of Composition	p. 259
Studies of Children's Artistic Compositions and Aesthetic Experience	p. 267
Compositions by Talented Children	p. 278
Conclusions	p. 283
Conducting the Composition Study: Methods and Procedures	p. 285
Composition Tasks and Procedures	p. 286
Analyzing the Children's Compositions	p. 304
The Compositions Studies	p. 309
Analyzing Children's Free Compositions	p. 310
Analyzing the Provoked Compositions	p. 324
Conclusions	p. 349
Toward a Model of Artistic Development	p. 355
An Integrated Model of Artistic Development	p. 362
Appendixes	p. 375
Bibliography	p. 401
Index	p. 417
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Patterns of Artistic Development in Children: Comparative Studies of Talent

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