Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
Apr 2012 · Sold by Penguin
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58 reviews
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About this ebook
A revised edition of the classic bestselling how to draw book. A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come.
Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes:
• a new introduction;
• crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain;
• new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.;
• an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood "scribbling" to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity;
• and new reproductions of master drawings throughout
Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes:
• a new introduction;
• crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain;
• new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.;
• an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood "scribbling" to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity;
• and new reproductions of master drawings throughout
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4.4
58 reviews
R Walker
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August 16, 2016
It isn't just art. I bought this book 25 years ago, and again when my son was just 3 years old and "diagnosed" with PDD-nos or "Autism-lite". At that time I made direct correlations between the right brain exercises and the way he thought. Was it here where I learned about the tyranny of the left-brain? That's why school stinks for our kids. They are not taught to their strengths because memorization of "facts" is the only way to survive in school. Billions of dollars spent on autism etiology. They don't know anything for sure, except it isn't vaccines. Science: here's your sign!
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greylady 2
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December 7, 2017
Being honest here, only read the sample. However, the entire sample was about why our way of thinking about art up until this point was incorrect. I was over 95% of the way through the sample before I got to chapter 1.
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A Google user
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November 13, 2016
A book that will forever have an impact on how you feel about art, and the nature of what it is all about.
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About the author
Betty Edwards speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies. Now retired from her position as professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, Edwards received her doctorate from UCLA in art, education, and the psychology of perception. Dr. Edwards has been profiled on the Today show and in Time, among other magazines and newspapers. She lives in California.
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