Jonathan David Fineberg (Editor) Discovering Child Art: Essays on Childhood, Primitivism, and Modernism. Princeton University Press, 1998. First printing. 0691011885 xxii/271 pages. Volume, measuring approximately 8" x 10.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Numerous b&w illustrations. "This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It shows that children's art and childhood have inspired major works of art, served as central metaphors for artistic spontaneity and honesty, and provided a window into the fundamental human qualities explored by modern artists."