Toys and men.
NMR| N° d'inventaire | 15303 |
| Format | 35 x 29 |
| Détails | 328 p., 700 illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2011 |
| Etat | Nine |
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From Antiquity to the present day, the toy is an extraordinary distillation of culture and conservatism. It reproduces the adult world through miniaturization and follows its evolutions. Through this object, the child learns by imitating his parents. However, it is more an access to play than to the reality of the "Adults: a compromise between reality and illusion, it increasingly translates today an imaginary universe, of which it is both the tool and the origin. The catalog addresses all aspects of the toy throughout the Western world and Japan: history, economy, psychology, otherness girls-boys…. Dolls, spinning tops, cars, horses… 990 exceptional or practical toys are studied according to different aspects: the making of the toy, opening onto the marvelous: gift, present, rattles, animals, games of skill, becoming an adult: the sacrifice of toys…
From Antiquity to the present day, the toy is an extraordinary distillation of culture and conservatism. It reproduces the adult world through miniaturization and follows its evolutions. Through this object, the child learns by imitating his parents. However, it is more an access to play than to the reality of the "Adults: a compromise between reality and illusion, it increasingly translates today an imaginary universe, of which it is both the tool and the origin. The catalog addresses all aspects of the toy throughout the Western world and Japan: history, economy, psychology, otherness girls-boys…. Dolls, spinning tops, cars, horses… 990 exceptional or practical toys are studied according to different aspects: the making of the toy, opening onto the marvelous: gift, present, rattles, animals, games of skill, becoming an adult: the sacrifice of toys…