TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caffin,Charles H.
TI  - A Child's Guide to Pictures
AV  - ND 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Natural history -- Juvenile literature
KW  - Art -- Juvenile literature
KW  - Colors -- Juvenile literature
KW  - Painting -- Study and teaching -- Juvenile literature
N1  - Release date is 2019-03-09; Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
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N2  - "A Child's Guide to Pictures" by Charles H. Caffin is an instructional art guide written in the early 20th century. The book aims to help children understand and appreciate the beauty of art and the principles that govern it, highlighting the importance of feeling over mere intellectual understanding. Through a series of engaging chapters, the author encourages young readers to explore the relationship between beauty, nature, and artistic expression.  The opening of the book introduces the central idea that appreciation for art stems from an emotional connection rather than a detailed knowledge of its subject matter. Caffin shares personal anecdotes, illustrating how initial feelings of beauty can lead to deeper understanding over time. He emphasizes the importance of developing a "feeling for beauty" that allows children to recognize and enjoy aesthetic experiences in both art and nature. By presenting concepts such as selection, arrangement, and the emotional impact of art, the author sets the stage for an enlightening exploration of how to appreciate and understand visual beauty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59040
ER  -