Depicting Canada's Children (Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada)

__Depicting Canada’s Children__ is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict CONTENTS 6 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 14 INTRODUCTION 16 SYMBOL AND REALITY 28 Iconography of the Child in Early Quebec Art 30 Shaping Modern Boyhood: Indian Lore, Child Psychology, and the Cultural Landscape of Camp Ahmek 54 Haunted: First Nations Children in Residential School Photography 76 A Land of Youth: Nationhood and the Image of the Child in the National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division 112 Mapping a Canadian Girlhood Historically through Dolls and Doll-Play 136 OTHERS AND OUTSIDERS 158 The Raw Materials of Empire Building: Depicting Canada’s Home Children 160 Immigrants, Labourers, “Others”: Canada’s Home Children 180 Re-Visioning the Girl’s Narrative for the 1980s: The Case of the Short Story “Jack of Hearts” and Its Film Adaptation 200 Locating Children in the Discourse of Squeegee Kids 228 A Child’s Place in Ottawa’s Commemorative Landscape 246 SUBJECTS OF CARE 258 Frocks and Bangles: The Photographic Conversion of Two Indian Girls 260 Pictures of Health: Sick Kids Exposed 286 Healthy Bodies, Strong Citizens: Okanagan Children’s Drawings and the Canadian Junior Red Cross 306 Children and School Interiors: The User-Material Culture-Environment Nexus in Late Nineteenth-Century Toronto 332 INNER VISIONS 350 George Reid’s Paintings as Narratives of a Child Nation 352 James Wilson Morrice’s Return from School: A Modernist Image 374 Something Resembling Childhood: Artworks by Jack Chambers, Daniel Barrow, and Rodney Graham 392 The Child in Me: A Figure of Photographic Creation 414 Paterson Ewen’s Portrait of Vincent 442 CONTRIBUTORS 452 INDEX 456 A 456 B 456 C 456 D 458 E 458 F 458 G 459 H 459 I 460 J 460 K 460 L 460 M 461 N 461 O 462 P 462 Q 463 R 463 S 464 T 465 V 465 W 465 Y 465 Z 465 "Depicting Canada's Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children."--Pub. desc Offers a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts.