Child-life in Art: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Child-life in Art, credited to Estelle M. Hurll, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Child-life in Art, by Estelle M. Hurll. Read by Laura Caldwell. The poetry of childhood is full of attractiveness to the artist, and many and varied are the forms in which he interprets it. The Christ-child has been his highest ideal. All that human imagination could conceive of innocence and purity and divine loveliness has been shown forth in the delineation of the Babe of Bethlehem. The influence of such art has made itself felt upon all child pictures. It matters not whether the subject be a prince or a street-waif; the true artist sees in him something which is lovable and winning, and transfers it to his canvas for our lasting pleasure. (Summary from the Preface of Child-life in Art)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Child-life in Art
• Author credits: Estelle M. Hurll
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 1:43:27

Catalogue topics

• art history
• children
• childhood
• angels
• Christ-child

Track guide

1. 0 - Preface — 3:24
2. 1 - Childhood in Ideal Types — 15:07
3. 2 - Children Born to the Purple — 16:22
4. 3 - The Children of Field and Village — 19:42
5. 4 - The Child-Life of the Streets — 17:42
6. 5 - Child-Angels — 15:06
7. 6 - The Christ- Child — 16:04

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