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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Main Author: Willats, John (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates 2005.
Edition:1st ed
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-256) and index.
ISBN:9781135624989
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