Drawing on the right side of the brain / Betty Edwards.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2012Edition: Definitive, 4th ed. [Expanded & Updated]Description: xxxiii, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781585429196
- 1585429198
- 9781585429202
- 1585429201
- 9781585429219
- 158542921X
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Main Library | NonFiction | 741.2 E26 | Available | 33111009643889 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A revised edition of the classic drawing book that has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the United States alone.
Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes:
a new preface and introduction; crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain; new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.; an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood "scribbling" to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity; and new reproductions of master drawings throughout
A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers to come.
Rev. and expanded ed. of: New drawing on the right side of the brain. 1999.
Drawing and the art of bicycle riding -- First steps in drawing -- Your brain, the right and left of it -- Crossing over from left to right -- Drawing on your childhood artistry -- Perceiving edges -- Perceiving spaces -- Perceiving relationships -- Drawing a profile portrait -- Perceiving lights, shadows, and the Gestalt -- Using your new perceptual skills for creative problem solving -- Drawing on the artist in you.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-274) and index.
"A course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence"--Cover.
This book is designed to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. It includes updates based on recent research about the brain's plasticity and the emerging significance of right-brain functioning. It offers new tools for identifying and solving life problems with the visual-thinking skills acquired through drawing. It shows how new emphasis on how the ability to use the strengths of the brain's right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life, the worship of all that is linear, analytic, and digital.