Archival Attunements: Researching Children’s Drawings “About the War”
Christopher M. Schulte
Abstract:Based on the author’s experiences of working with materials from the Dale B. Harris Papers, specifically a series of children’s drawings “about the war,” this article engages the concept of attunement as a strategy to address the challenges of encountering children’s creations from the past. The article begins with an introduction to the concept of attunement, drawing into dialogue the work of Erin Manning and Jane Bennett, for example, as well as related scholarship from art education, qualitative studies, an… Show more
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