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The original kindergarten, devised in the 1830s by German educator Friedrich Froebel, is the subject of Norman Brosterman's illustrated history. Froebel's program, named by joining the German words for children and garden, taught young children art, design, mathematics and natural history through storytelling, nature study, dancing and singing, and through a series of twenty educational toys called the Froebel gifts: modeling clay, origami papers, parquetry tiles, sewing kits, building blocks. Brosterman, an architect and artist, recounts Froebel's life and illustrates every gift alongside work by nineteenth-century teachers and children. One section argues that kindergarten may have shaped abstract art and modern architecture, citing Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright among its former pupils.
Austin Kleon praised it as a beautifully produced illustrated history and found its case for kindergarten's influence on abstract art and modern architecture convincing.
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Austin Kleon (Writer, artist)
This is not only a beautifully produced illustrated history of Friedrich Froebel’s institution, it also presents a compelling case that kindergarten influenced the origins of abstract art and modern architecture. (The juxtaposition of children’s art with paintings and blueprints reminds me of David Hockney’s Secret Knowledge.)
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