Yes. Dolls on books (as for books on dolls, they will come in another moment). I’m delighted, as I was given the just issued “Giochi Sghiribizzi e Trastulli” and a couple of my Momoko dolls couldn’t resist to browsing it and choosing a lovely illustrated page, as you see below. This colorful book by Carlo Tacito Tonfoni is his second, extended, valuable collection of memories, rhymes, and rules about street/backyard play, toys made with nothing and play schemes which needed a vivid fantasy and real friends to play with. We’re talking about the years 1900-1955 - in Italy most of the pre-TV era - and it is a true field survey. I’ll talk again about the author, as he’s a volcanic, expert toys collector with a great penchant for involving both adults and kids in playful and cultural experiences.Dolls reflect. I mean, they reflect the Zeitgeist. They can (make us) think. * Le bambole riflettono. Cioè, riflettono lo spirito del tempo. E sanno (farci) riflettere.
sabato 17 gennaio 2009
Dolls on books
Yes. Dolls on books (as for books on dolls, they will come in another moment). I’m delighted, as I was given the just issued “Giochi Sghiribizzi e Trastulli” and a couple of my Momoko dolls couldn’t resist to browsing it and choosing a lovely illustrated page, as you see below. This colorful book by Carlo Tacito Tonfoni is his second, extended, valuable collection of memories, rhymes, and rules about street/backyard play, toys made with nothing and play schemes which needed a vivid fantasy and real friends to play with. We’re talking about the years 1900-1955 - in Italy most of the pre-TV era - and it is a true field survey. I’ll talk again about the author, as he’s a volcanic, expert toys collector with a great penchant for involving both adults and kids in playful and cultural experiences.giovedì 31 luglio 2008
Playful reading
Momoko is playing the intellectual (she actually has a lot of fun) with a genial and whimsical book about a playful universe of games, children songs, rhymes, toys, agility tests and role playing. Carlo Tacito Tonfoni, the author, collected them carefully and lovingly from the very voice of elderly people and explored the variety and the persistence of the primary power of play – which doesn’t care of language, age, money, race and place… the book is in Italian but I’m sure that many of the games described were and are the same worldwide. With or without dolls.
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Momoko gioca a fare l’intellettuale (in realtà si diverte tantissimo) con un libro geniale e bizzarro che parla di un universo di giocoso di canzoncine, filastrocche, giocattoli e giochi di agilità e di ruolo. Carlo Tacito Tonfoni, l’autore, ne ha fatto incetta con pazienza e con amore dall’autentica voce di persone anziane e ha esplorato la varietà e la persistenza del gioco, una forza primaria che non si cura di lingue, età, denaro, razza e luogo… il libro è in italiano ma sono sicura che molti dei giochi descritti erano e sono gli stessi in tutto il mondo. Con o senza bambole.