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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.

Record details

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.