Drawing on the right side of the brain
Edwards, Betty
Drawing on the right side of the brain Betty Edwards. - 4th ed. - New York : Tarcher Perigee, ©2012. - xxxiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Rev. and expanded ed. of: New drawing on the right side of the brain. 1999. "A course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-274) and index.
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.
9781585429202
2012001232
Drawing--Technique.
Visual perception.
Cerebral dominance.
Illustrated books.
Cerebral dominance.
Drawing--Technique.
Visual perception.
NC730 / .E34 2012b
741.2 / EDW-D
Drawing on the right side of the brain Betty Edwards. - 4th ed. - New York : Tarcher Perigee, ©2012. - xxxiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Rev. and expanded ed. of: New drawing on the right side of the brain. 1999. "A course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-274) and index.
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.
9781585429202
2012001232
Drawing--Technique.
Visual perception.
Cerebral dominance.
Illustrated books.
Cerebral dominance.
Drawing--Technique.
Visual perception.
NC730 / .E34 2012b
741.2 / EDW-D