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CONTENTS
| I. INTRODUCTION | ||
The child’s delight in pictures—The vital questions concerning the child’s pictures—Permanent effect of good and bad art on the taste—Difference between the general knowledge of books and that of pictures—The multiplication of process reproductions—How companionship helps the child in picture study—Picture enjoyment spoiled by mechanical methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| II. THE CHILD AND THE PICTURE | ||
The child’s first pleasure in pictures due to recognition—The element of curiosity—The story picture and the appeal to the imagination—Subjects to which children are indifferent, portraiture and pure landscape—Preparing the way for enjoyment of nature pictures—Subjects to withhold from children: the vulgar and sensuous, the repugnant and horrible—Mistake of forcing uninteresting subjects upon the child—The child’s unaffected joy in art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| III. HOW THE PICTURE IS MADE | ||
Advantage to mothers and educators in knowing something of the construction of a picture—Ruskin’s definition of composition—Principality—Favorite compositional forms of various painters—Repetition—Examples—Contrast—Examples—Consistency and continuity—Distinction between the subject and the art of a picture—The child’s gradual awakening to the beauties of composition—Reference books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| IV. HOW TO MAKE PICTURES TELL STORIES | ||
| The value of pictures in supplying stories to tell children—The Aurora—Difference in children in knowing the stories of the home pictures—The Children’s Picture Hour—Story of Landseer’s Shoeing—Prince Baltasar on his Pony—Raphael’s St. Michael and the Dragon—Child’s share in the story-telling—Picture story-telling | ||
