Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Hardcover - 2012
by Betty Edwards
Translated into more than 17 languages, this is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book. Professional artists, artists in training, or hobbyists will gain greater confidence in their ability to deepen their artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world.
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A revised edition of the classic drawing book that has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the United States alone.
Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction 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 preface and 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
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 to come.
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- Title Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
- Author Betty Edwards
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 4 Deluxe
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Tarcherperigee
- Date 2012-04-26
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bookmark, Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781585429219 / 158542921X
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 7.6 x 1 in (23.88 x 19.30 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Drawing - Technique, Visual perception
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012001232
- Dewey Decimal Code 741.2
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