Making sense of children's drawings
The message of this book is a simple one: children learn to draw by acquiring increasingly complex and effective drawing rules. In this regard, learning to draw is like learning a language, and as with language children use these rules creatively, making infinite use of finite means. Learning to dra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum Associates
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798058906719 |
| Sumario: | The message of this book is a simple one: children learn to draw by acquiring increasingly complex and effective drawing rules. In this regard, learning to draw is like learning a language, and as with language children use these rules creatively, making infinite use of finite means. Learning to draw is thus, like learning a language, one of the major achievements of the human mind. Theories of perception developed in the second half of the 20th century enable us to construct a new theory of children's drawings that can account for their many strange features. Earlier accounts con |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-256) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781135624989 9781282326774 9786612326776 9781410613561 |
