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Autore |
Willats John |
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Titolo |
Making sense of children's drawings [[electronic resource] /] / John Willats |
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Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-62498-4 |
1-282-32677-5 |
9786612326776 |
1-4106-1356-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Children's drawings - Psychological aspects |
Drawing, Psychology of |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-256) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; PART I: STUDYING CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS; PART II: MENTAL PROCESSES; PART III: CHILD ART; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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