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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
The brilliant sequel to Edwards' bestselling classic Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, now in paperback. Here, Edwards expands on her earlier techniques, using the visual language of drawing to unlock the full creative potential of the human unconscious and apply that power to everyday problems. Black-and-white drawings and photographs throughout.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in psychology, and it raised some profound philosophical questions. It is concerned with how we use the information reaching our senses to inform our behaviour, and to create our subjective experience of the surrounding world. Brian Rogers discusses the philosophical question of what it means to perceive, and describes how we are able to perceive the particular characteristics of...
Author
Publisher
North Light Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Talent, schmalent! Drawing is a skill that you can learn, just like tying your shoe or riding a bike. And this is just the book to show you how through bite-size lessons that will have you seeing like an artist and drawing confidently right away. -- adapted from back cover.
Author
Publisher
Imagine! Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Optical illusions intrigue the mind and delight the eye. Viewers try to perceive the visual shifts in a two-dimensional picture, but can't understand how a single still image can be so animated and rich. While even the simplest illusions please, this stunning volume goes far beyond the usual collection. Compiled by visual graphics expert Brad Honeycutt and puzzle master Terry Stickels--and featuring a foreword by renowned puzzle creator, computer...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of The Dynamics of Architectural Form, Film as Art, Toward a Psychology of Art, and Art and Visual Perception, asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving...
11) Eye chart
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 0Desert nomads tested their vision by distinguishing a pair of stars. But we have since created more disquieting ways to test the strength of the eyes. Reading the eye chart is an exercise in failure, since it only gets interesting when you cannot read any further. It is the opposite of interpretative reading, like one does with literature. When...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism-the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable...
13) Color farm
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
The rooster, dog, sheep, cow, pig, and other animals on a farm are made up of colorful shapes such as square, circle, rectangle, and triangle. Features die-cut pages.
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pavement Chalk Artist includes a fabulous selection of Beever's most intriguing anamorphic drawings. Each one is accompanied by a description of the techniques he used and the challenges he overcame. This new edition includes 16 new pages of Beever's recent art, in addition to the 16 added to the second edition, for a total of 32 new pages.
15) Who are they?
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Black silhouettes against white background depict different mother animals and their young, from one sheep to five ducks. On board pages.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Exploring the origins, designs and themes of over one hundred pictures from different periods and places, Susan Woodford artfully expands our appreciation of pictures. Woodford's riveting prose compares different artistic approaches, questions assumptions and introduces us to a wide range of stimulating ideas. Wether looking a Japanese woodcut, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper or Picasso's Guernico, Looking at Pictures develops our eyes as well as...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod left his dorm-room to play a pick-up game of basketball. In the skirmish for a loose ball, a boy's finger hooked behind Axelrod's eyeball and severed his optic nerve. Permanently blinded in his right eye, Axelrod returned a week later to the same dorm-room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the smooth veneer of reality had been broken,...
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