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Drawing on the right side of the brain : a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence / Betty Edwards ; [instructional drawings, Betty Edwards, cover drawing, John Boomer].
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NC730 .E34 1979
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Betty, 1926-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drawing--Technique.
- Drawing.
- Visual perception.
- Cerebral dominance.
- Art.
- Visual Perception.
- Dominance, Cerebral.
- Medical Subjects:
- Art.
- Visual Perception.
- Dominance, Cerebral.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, [1979]
- Contents:
- Drawing and the art of bicycle riding
- Expressing yourself in drawing: the nonverbal language of art
- Your brain: the right and left of it
- Crossing over: experiencing the shift from left to right
- Drawing on memories: your history as an artist
- Getting around your symbol system: meeting edges and contours
- Perceiving the shape of a space: the positive aspects of negative space
- Branching out in all directions: perspective in a new mode
- Fitting it all together: the place of proportion
- Facing forward: portrait drawing with ease
- Moving into the third dimension: seeing light, drawing shade
- The zen of drawing: drawing out the artist within
- Postscript: Teachers and parents
- Art students.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205) and index.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: G.C. Winkler, 1992.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Edwards, Betty, 1926- Drawing on the right side of the brain.
- ISBN:
- 0874770874
- 9780874770872
- 0874770882
- 9780874770889
- 0312904916
- 9780312904913
- 0312904924
- 9780312904920
- OCLC:
- 5174509
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