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Drawing on the right side of the brain Cover Image Book Book

Drawing on the right side of the brain / Betty Edwards.

Edwards, Betty, 1926- (Author). Edwards, Betty, 1926- New drawing on the right side of the brain. (Added Author).

Summary:

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781585429196
  • ISBN: 1585429198
  • ISBN: 9781585429202 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 1585429201 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781585429219 (deluxe)
  • ISBN: 158542921X (deluxe)
  • Physical Description: xxxiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: Definitive, 4th ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Tarcher/Penguin, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Rev. and expanded ed. of: New drawing on the right side of the brain. 1999.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-274) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Drawing and the art of bicycle riding -- First steps in drawing -- Your brain, the right and left of it -- Crossing over: experiencing the shift from left to right -- Drawing on your childhood artistry -- Meeting edges and contours -- The positive aspects of negative spaces -- Putting sighting into perspective -- Facing forward: portrait drawing with ease -- The value of logical lights and shadows -- Applying perceptual skills to general thinking and problem solving -- Drawing on the artist in you.

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Subject: Drawing > Technique.
Visual perception.
Cerebral dominance.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain : The Definitive, 4th Edition
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain : The Definitive, 4th Edition
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain : The Definitive, 4th Edition

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This new edition of the hugely popular and influential drawing manual first published over 30 years ago incorporates new findings from neuroscience, like the discovery of brain plasticity, together with the tried-and-true exercises included in past editions. Edwards (art, emerita, California State Univ., Long Beach) explains the value of accessing the brain's more creative right hemisphere and has isolated five perceptual skills readers can develop to begin harnessing their right brain power to improve their drawing. She makes a strong case that these exercises will improve not only practitioners' realistic drawing capabilities but their perceptual and general problem-solving skills as well. VERDICT This fascinating read is recommended. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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