1. Importance of images What interests
Benjamin is not the book itself in childhood, or educational purposes explicitly declared, even in respect of certain eighteenth-century pedagogy professes a clear reservations, but the pictures: "There is one thing that saves works more antiquated, less free from prejudice [...]: the illustration. The latter escaped the control of philanthropic theories, and the artists and the children have agreed to the shoulders of educators "( Old children's books [II] , in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol . II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1924, p. 53). And on this theme of the centrality of the image will be back in later years: "The true value of these simple picture books for children is located so far dall'ottusa effectiveness, due to which they recommended the rationalist pedagogy" ( look at the book childhood, in W. Benjamin, The Complete Works , vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p. 479).
Benjamin is not the book itself in childhood, or educational purposes explicitly declared, even in respect of certain eighteenth-century pedagogy professes a clear reservations, but the pictures: "There is one thing that saves works more antiquated, less free from prejudice [...]: the illustration. The latter escaped the control of philanthropic theories, and the artists and the children have agreed to the shoulders of educators "( Old children's books [II] , in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol . II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1924, p. 53). And on this theme of the centrality of the image will be back in later years: "The true value of these simple picture books for children is located so far dall'ottusa effectiveness, due to which they recommended the rationalist pedagogy" ( look at the book childhood, in W. Benjamin, The Complete Works , vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p. 479).
2. Images and childhood
In brief pages of Benjamin, is to report - as well as an attempt to capture an evolution of children's literature in the German area, and the presentation of a hypothetical bond with the emblematic Baroque - a willingness to explore the way children relate to the images: "the boy who speaks with the images, are not the things to emerge from the pages: it is he who steals in contemplating them, as a cloud that is satisfied with the splendor of the colorful world of figures "(Look in the book childhood, in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p. 478 ).
In brief pages of Benjamin, is to report - as well as an attempt to capture an evolution of children's literature in the German area, and the presentation of a hypothetical bond with the emblematic Baroque - a willingness to explore the way children relate to the images: "the boy who speaks with the images, are not the things to emerge from the pages: it is he who steals in contemplating them, as a cloud that is satisfied with the splendor of the colorful world of figures "(Look in the book childhood, in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p. 478 ).
3. Images and text written
last series of observations about the relationship between images and learning of writing: not only refers to images that illustrate the alphabet, but also to the alphabets figurative and rebus ( look on the book of childhood , in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p. 480) to emphasize the tactile of some texts (the pull tab brings up a new image ...) (Look on the book childhood, in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p . 481).
Fine notes on collecting, but it's another story ... ( Old children's books [II] , in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. Or. 1924, p. 50).
last series of observations about the relationship between images and learning of writing: not only refers to images that illustrate the alphabet, but also to the alphabets figurative and rebus ( look on the book of childhood , in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p. 480) to emphasize the tactile of some texts (the pull tab brings up a new image ...) (Look on the book childhood, in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. or. 1926, p . 481).
Fine notes on collecting, but it's another story ... ( Old children's books [II] , in W. Benjamin, Complete Works, vol. II, Einaudi, Torino 2001, ed. Or. 1924, p. 50).