Representing Childhood: Abstraction and Aesthetics of Simplicity in Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day

The central question driving this project is not “Is The Snowy Day art?”—a question that risks reifying the very hierarchies this thesis seeks to trouble—but rather: What might it mean to treat this picturebook as an art historical object? What must be addressed in the discipline’s practices, priorities, and self-conceptions to engage such work with rigor and care? How can we analyze the picturebook as an art object?

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Scholarship @ Claremont (The Claremont Colleges)
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2025-01-01
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Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
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Representing Childhood: Abstraction and Aesthetics of Simplicity in Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day

Scholarship @ Claremont (The Claremont Colleges)
Reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species
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Representing Childhood: Abstraction and Aesthetics of Simplicity in Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day

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The central question driving this project is not “Is The Snowy Day art?”—a question that risks reifying the very hierarchies this thesis seeks to trouble—but rather: What might it mean to treat this picturebook as an art historical object? What must be addressed in the discipline’s practices, priorities, and self-conceptions to engage such work with rigor and care? How can we analyze the picturebook as an art object?

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