Making sense of children's drawings [[electronic resource] /] / John Willats
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 155.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Children's drawings - Psychological aspects |
| Drawing, Psychology of | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-256) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; PART I: STUDYING CHILDREN'S DRAWINGS; PART II: MENTAL PROCESSES; PART III: CHILD ART; Appendix; Glossary; References; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Making sense of children's drawings |
| ISBN: | 1-135-62498-4 |
| 1-282-32677-5 | |
| 9786612326776 | |
| 1-4106-1356-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783697703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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