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“The Values of Savagery”
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | de Rijke, Victoria |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Description | In the aftermath of World War II, the destruction of the war acted as a powerful agent for exposing the futility and damage done by politics. In the public consciousness, children and pets had been sacrificed. In Britain alone, 750,000 pets were culled by their owners in just one week, out of panic over wartime food shortage. As part of reconstruction after the war, children and animals featured as emblems of radical social change in international welfare, schooling, and play projects, while artists such as the CoBrA group sought to represent both the wildness and savagery of war's true effects and recover a lost innocence in the spontaneity of children's art. CoBrA's members, originating principally from the European cities of Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam, came to the group from a unique artistic background. Children and animals readily act as metaphors for shared imprisonment within domestic, institutionalized spheres. Book Name: Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9781315386218-15&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 249 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| Starting Page | 231 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315386218-15 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2017-10-06 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture Savagery Cobra's Artists Children and Animals Food Shortage |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
