Studies of childhood

by James Sully

B. Perez, L’art et la poésie chez l’enfant, 1888.

(7) Drawing.

Corrado Ricci, L’arte dei Bambini (Bologna, 1887).

J. Passy, “Note sur les dessins d’enfants,” Revue Philosophique, 1891.

Earl Barnes, “A Study of Children’s Drawings,” Pedagogical Seminary, vol. ii., No. 3, p. 455 ff.

The names of other books on child-psychology may be found in Tracy’s volume, The Psychology of Childhood, p. 162 ff.; in the Handbook of the Illinois Society for Child Study, 1895; in B. Hartmann’s article, “Alterstypen,” in Rein’s Encyclop. Handbuch der Pädagogik, Band i., p. 49; and in C. Shubert’s Essay, “Elternfragen,” in Rein’s Aus dem pädagog. Universitätsseminar zu Jena, 1894.

INDEX.

A.

• Abstraction, abstract ideas, beginnings of, [443];
  • growth of, [483].
• Acting, relation of, to play, [36], [326];
  • as early form of art, [323];
  • first attempts at, [434], [496].
  • See [Dramatic representation].
• Activity, action. See [Movement].
• Adjectives, first use of, [171], [427].
• Adornment, child’s instinct of, [318].
  • See [Dress].
• Æsthetic aspect of child, [2];
  • feelings of child, [300], [397], [409], [451].
  • See [Art].
• Affirmation, sign of, [417].
• After-images, child’s ideas of, [102], [465].
• Altruism, germs of, in child, [242].
  • See [Sympathy].
• Amiel, H. F., [3].
• Andree, R., [337 note], [338], [345 note], [348 note], [352 note], [379], 381 note.
• Anger, early manifestations of, [232], [407], [432].
• Animal, child compared with, [5];
  • ideas of child respecting, [123];
  • dread of musical sounds by, [195];
  • fear of uncaused movements by, [205], [220];
  • child’s fear of, [207], [433];
  • child’s ill-treatment of, [239];
  • his sympathy with, [247], [460], [475], [485];
  • recognition of portraits by, [309];
  • care of body by, [318];
  • child’s mode of drawing, [372];
  • his liking for, [450].
• Animism, of nature-man, [104];
  • traces of, in child-thought, [480].
• Anthropocentric ideas of child, [82], [98], [102], [427].
• Anthropomorphic ideas of children, [79].
• Anti-social tendencies of child, [230].
• Antithesis, child’s use of, [174], [429], [442].
• Argument. See [Dialectic].
• Arms, child’s manner of drawing, [348];
  • treatment of, in profile representation, [362].
• Art;
  • art-impulse of child, [298];
  • first responses to natural beauty, [300];
  • pleasure of light and colour, [300];
  • germ of æsthetic feeling for form, [303];
  • feeling for flowers, [305];
  • feeling for scenery, [306];
  • rudimentary appreciation of art, [307];
  • effects of music, [308];
  • interpretation of pictures, [309];
  • understanding of stories, [314];
  • realism of child, [314];
  • attitude towards dramatic spectacle, [315];
  • feeling for comedy and tragedy, [316];
  • beginnings of art-production, [318];
  • love of adornment, [318];
  • grace in action, [321];
  • relation of art to play, [321], [326];
  • germ of imitative art, [323];
  • invention, [325];
  • roots of artistic impulse, [327].
• Artfulness of children, [272].
• Articulation, first rudimentary, [135];
  • transition to true, [138];
  • defects of early, [148], [418];
  • process of, [154];
  • growth of, [158], [416], [427], [439], [467].
  • See [Language].
• Assertion, child’s manner of making, [457], [471].
  • See [Sentence].
• Assimilation. See [Similarity].
• —— phonetic, [156].
• Association of ideas, in imaginative transformation of objects, [32];
  • seen in extension of names, [164];
  • first manifestations of, [405].
• Assonance, in early vocalisation, [137].

B.