| Description |
xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface; 1. Basic executive constraints in drawing; 2. Maintaining paper contact, anchoring and planning; 3. The reproduction of rectilinear figures; 4. The production of curvilinear forms; 5. The impact of meaning on executive strategies; 6. Simple representational drawing; 7. Difficult graphic tasks: a failure in perceptual analysis?; 8. Stability and evolution in children's drawings; 9. Innovations, primitives, contour and space in children's drawings; 10. Children's repeated drawings: how are innovations coded?; 11. The pragmatics of everyday graphic production; References; Index |
| Summary |
When we do something as apparently simple as sketching a map, constructing a working diagram, or drawing an imaginary face to amuse ourselves, we utilise a complex set of abilities: perceptual, mechanical, strategic, representational, pragmatic. Peter van Sommers sets out to distinguish and describe the various layers of organisation in the drawing performances of ordinary people - adults and children. Drawings, like language, have a multi-layered structure. Because much of the structure represents tacit knowledge, a variety of special observational and analytic methods must be developed to provide a comprehensive empirical account of graphic production |
| Analysis |
Man Drawing ability |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 271-273 |
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Includes index |
| Notes |
Online version of the print title |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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System requirements: Internet connectivity, World Wide Web browser, and Adobe Acrobat reader |
| Subject |
Cognition.
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Drawing ability in children.
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Drawing ability.
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Drawing, Psychology of.
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| LC no. |
83007799 |
| ISBN |
0521250951 |
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