Main entry:

Kantrowitz, Andrea, author.

Title & Author:

Drawing thought : how drawing helps us observe, discover, and invent / Andrea Kantrowitz.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Description:

x, 177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-173).
Prelude -- The evolution of thought. How to take a line for a walk -- Below the surface. How to show feelings -- The thinking hand. How to see shapes -- Imaginary friends. How to overlap shapes -- Drawn together. How to imagine a place -- Thinking space. How to make space -- A tool of thought. How to take a point of view -- Everybody draw!

Summary:

"Drawing is a way of constructing ideas and observations as much as it is a means of expressing them. When we are not ready or able to put our thoughts into words, we can sometimes put them down in arrangements of lines and marks. Artists, designers, architects, and others draw to generate, explore, and test perceptions and mental models. In 'Drawing Thought', artist-educator Andrea Kantrowitz invites readers to use drawing to extend and reflect on their own thought processes. She interweaves illuminating hand-drawn images with text, integrating recent findings in cognitive psychology and neuroscience with accounts of her own artistic and teaching practices."--back cover.

ISBN:

9780262544320 paperback
0262544326 paperback

Subject:

Drawing Psychological aspects.
Cognition.
Dessin Aspect psychologique.
cognition.
DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316628
Call No.: 316628
Copy: 1
Status: Available