John Willats

Making Sense of Children's Drawings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780805845372
• ISBN-10: 0805845372
• Artikelnr.: 22221459

Autorenporträt

John Willats

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Studying Children's Drawings.
Contradictions and Confusions. In the Beginning. The Early Years. Where Do
We Go From Here? Regions. Lines, Line Junctions, and Perspective. Part II:
Mental Processes. "Seeing in" and the Mechanism of Development. The Drawing
Process. Part III: Child Art. Children as Artists. Art Education. Summing
Up. Appendix.