Graduation Year
2025
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Art History
Reader 1
Seth Lerer
Reader 2
Julia Lum
Abstract
The central question driving this project is not “Is The Snowy Day art?”—a question that risks reifying the very hierarchies this thesis seeks to trouble—but rather: What might it mean to treat this picturebook as an art historical object? What must be addressed in the discipline’s practices, priorities, and self-conceptions to engage such work with rigor and care? How can we analyze the picturebook as an art object?
Recommended Citation
Propp, Elle, "Representing Childhood: Abstraction and Aesthetics of Simplicity in Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day" (2025). Scripps Senior Theses. 2702.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2702
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