Mary dow brine biography for kids
Mary dow brine biography for kids
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Lullaby and Goodnight—Children’s Literature from the Morse Collection
The books in this exhibition reflect the fact that by 1900, the principle of unified design was well established. Many artists held that good design should unify all aspects of the visual environment—from ceramics and glassware to furniture and wallpaper—and that the useful should be beautiful.
This philosophical approach to design required that even children’s literature be fully integrated with an enhanced visual environment and an element of a harmonious home.
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As an aspect of the Aesthetic movement, children’s books were part of a broad social effort to instill an early appreciation of beauty and, in turn, improve the character of children. While today the thrust of books for children—primers, fables, and nursery rhymes—is about literacy, the charming characters, captivating plots and whimsical prose of late 19th-century children’s books were instruments in spreading the gospel of beauty.
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