70×100/12, hard cover, 494 pp., ill., 2007
ISBN 5-86793-489-6
ISBN 5-86793-491-8

Elena Makarova is famous for her books on the subject of childhood. Many of her former students have now become teachers, art-therapists and artists. Her books form an integral part of the compulsory reading programme in teaching institutions. Makarova currently practises within a group of art-therapists and psychologists, apart from running seminars all over the world.
This two-volume book is cleverly constructed. The first book “How to Sculpt a Scoff” is documentary in nature, and describes the workings of the creative process and of childish ideas of the world. “Why do we try so hard to make children like us? Are we so perfect?” asks the author. This was the same question that was asked by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who saved the souls of children in concentration camp by giving them drawing lessons. The second part of the book is dedicated to her.

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