Politova M.A. The history of dolls: tradition and modern life

Keywords: doll history of dolls collection exhibition of dolls master of dolls childhood

Politova M.A. The history of dolls: tradition and modern life // Preschool Education Today. 2014, Issue 7 - p. 72–78.

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2014, 7

Marina A. Politova
art critic, post-graduate student of the Stroganov Moscow State Art Institute, lecturer at Lomonosov Moscow State University, leading researcher at GIMZ "Gorki Leninskie" (Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

In the article the history of dolls from the time of ancient Greece to the present is traced. Analogies of the historical time and an image of a doll and its value in the society are presented. The most significant features of doll’s production and stages of development of the iconography of the dolls are described. The most fully represented periods of greatest prosperity in the history of doll production are the XIX century, referred to as “the golden age of dolls” when dolls were mainly made of porcelain; the XX century – a phenomenon of Barbie doll; and the return of the best traditions of the XIX century expressed in communicative features of author’s dolls in present time.