Visual Thinking
Rudolf Arnheim

Contents


1.  
Early Stirrings // Perception torn from thinking
01
2. 
The Intelligence of Perception (i) // Perception as cognition
13
3.  
The Intelligence of Perception (ii) // Subtracting the context
37
4. 
Two and Two Together // Relations depend on structure
54
5. 
The Past in the Present // Forces acting on memory
80
6. 
The Images of Thought // What are mental images like?
97
7. 
Concepts Take Shape // Abstract gestures
116
8. 
Pictures, Symbols, and Signs // The functions of images
135
9. 
What Abstraction Is Not // A harmful dichotomy
153
10. 
What Abstraction Is // Types and containers
153
11. 
With Feet on the Ground // Abstraction as withdrawl
188
12. 
Thinking With Pure Shapes // Numbers reflect life
208
13. 
Words in Their Place // Can one think in words?
226
14. 
Art and Thought // Thinking in children's drawings
254
15. 
Models for Theory // Cosmological shapes
274
16. 
Vision in Education // What is art for?
294
   
Notes
317
   
Bibliogaraphy
325
   
Index
339




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