The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness; traditional gender roles; and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child; an idealized future citizen; was the darling of baby boom parents; psychologists; marketers; and designers who saw in the next generation promise that appeared to answer the most pressing worries of the age. Designing the Creative Child reveals how a postwar cult of childhood creativity developed and continues to this day. Exploring how the idea of children as imaginative and naturally creative was constructed; disseminated; and consumed in the United States after World War II; Amy F. Ogata argues that educational toys; playgrounds; small middle-class houses; new schools; and children’s museums were designed to cultivate imagination in a growing cohort of baby boom children. Enthusiasm for encouraging creativity in children countered Cold War fears of failing competitiveness and the postwar critique of social conformity; making creativity an emblem of national revitalization.Ogata describes how a historically rooted belief in children’s capacity for independent thinking was transformed from an elite concern of the interwar years to a fully consumable and aspirational ideal that persists today. From building blocks to Gumby; playhouses to Playskool trains; Creative Playthings to the Eames House of Cards; Crayola fingerpaint to children’s museums; material goods and spaces shaped a popular understanding of creativity; and Designing the Creative Child demonstrates how this notion has been woven into the fabric of American culture.
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