Images, like houses, are not “always already there,” but neither do they “fall from the sky.” They arise, are perceived, develop. That images stand in an indissoluble relationship to houses, and vice versa, is evident; this relationship too has a history that begins somewhere — usually very early. In this book Dieter Maurer and Claudia Riboni trace this “early history” through drawings and paintings commonly called “scribbles” or “children's drawings.” Yet the authors are interested less in the “childlike” than in the drawings and paintings as such. In six chapters, drawings and paintings are assembled that each illuminate a central aspect of early-childhood images and the emergence of houses within them.