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Inventing kindergarten

by Norman Brosterman, Kiyoshi Togashi

This study examines the history of the original kindergarten system and its unique educational tools. It analyses the programme's influence on modern design, exploring how geometric play prefigured abstract art and twentieth-century architecture.

Accession 14419 ISBN 0810935260 Publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
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