Kindheit, Emanzipation und Kritik

Michael Buhrs, Anne Marr, Eva Maria Stadler

"The catalogue accompanying this exhibition at Villa Stuck is aimed at both adults and children and takes as its theme ideas about childhood from the perspective of contemporary art. In addition to text and images, it also contains pages that invite readers to participate. One of the consequences of the digital revolution has been that children have long been considered equal partners to adults. In addition to illustrations of the works in the exhibition, the volume includes Mafalda comics on children's rights as well as selected drawings from one of the first interactive books, F. K. Waechter's Opa Hucke's Mitmachkabinett. The various text formats are an integral part of the book: the catalogue includes texts on the exhibition by the curators, a literary contribution by Andreas Neumeister, and an essay by Helmut Draxler on pedagogy and psychoanalysis, as well as a text by Nils Norman...