Child-life in Art

by Estelle May Hurll

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57 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 24, 2011

About the author

Estelle May Hurll (1863–1924), a student of aesthetics, wrote a series of popular aesthetic analyses of art in the early twentieth century.

Hurll was born 25 July 1863 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, daughter of Charles W. and Sarah Hurll. She attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1882. From 1884 to 1891 she taught ethics at Wellesley. Hurll received her A.M. from Wellesley in 1892. In earning her degree, Hurll wrote Wellesley's first master's thesis in philosophy under Mary Whiton Calkins; her thesis was titled "The Fundamental Reality of the Aesthetic." After earning her degree, Hurll engaged in a short career writing introductions and interpretations of art, but these activities ceased before she married John Chambers Hurll on 29 June 1908.

Reviews

[Anne Ochs · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this simple book (which is from a set of 8 books) and I had a lot of fun with 'following up' on the information.
Each of the six chapters touched on a different "classification" of children: Childhood in Ideal Types, Children Born to the Purple, The Children of Field and Village, The Child-Life of the Streets, Child Angels, The Christ Child.
Some well-known artists (Raphael, Bonicelli, Van Dyck, Rubens) and many I-have-never-heard-of artists (del Sarto, John George Brown, Mrs. Stanley, Jacopo....) were highlighted.
I used the website wikiart.org to view many of the mentioned artists' works. I look forward to reading the other books in this set and meeting more artists.