This assignment requires two actions on your part:
1. Visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art on the Hampshire College campus. The Five College bus to Mount Holyoke College stops regularly at Hampshire College. For information on the hours and location of the museum, check this website: http://www.picturebookart.org
2. Write a one page (in 12 point Times Roman, single spaced) report on your visit in which you connect what you saw to three of the histories enumerated below. Please turn in this assignment no later than Friday, February 16, 2007.
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Here are eight histories to reckon with in relation to stories for children. Different versions will promote different experiences. Each of these histories may be viewed through two general views of history, which you may want to keep in mind as you look for the more particular ones below. Which particular histories are reflected in the work you've seen at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art?
GENERAL VIEWS:
EIGHT PARTICULAR HISTORIES TO CONSIDER:
1. History of childhood: what is the status of childhood? For whom?
When did it begin? Is it ending?
2. History of book, adaptations and modifications of "the book,"
alternatives to the book
3. History of painting and of the graphic arts
4. History of literacy and of education, history of alphabets, history
of readers
5. History of religion & ideology, role of bible stories &
moral tales, history of believers
6. History of technology
7. History of colonialism, and of attitudes towards indigenous peoples
8. History of censorship
Please note that this assignment is in addition to the readings assigned under the heading of "Five Axes of Transformation" in this syllabus.