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Paperback
Putnam
Publisher: Tarcher
ISBN13: 9780874774245
Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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illustrated with 12-page color photo insert and line art throughout
A revised and expanded edition of the classic drawing-instruction book that has sold more than 2,500,000 copies.
When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.
Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:
* the very latest developments in brain research;
* new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education;
* instruction on self-expression through drawing;
* an updated section on using color; and
* detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving.
Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life--artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers--have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."
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| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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| Best art book I've seen |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I by no means have read all of the art books out there, but I have read a few and as far as I'm concerned this blows them out of the water. Seriously I read this on a whim while I was trying to learn to animate and the results have astounded me. I still am not a great artist as a result of going through this book and doing the exercises but I have improved vastly. Not only that I also feel like this book profoundly changes your mindset and the way you see things in an almost disturbing and very amazing way. There was a few exercises that involved handwriting that I found intriguing because I never considered handwriting art really but after I did the exercises I found myself able to write in a way I and other people found beautiful. Seriously my writing wasn't even legible before, that short little exercise made years of handwriting practice in school obsolete(my handwriting was atrocious and I had years of special classes on it which had no effect whatsoever). That alone was like insanely valuable to me and just everything in the book is like that. You will find yourself seriously amazed at how you change and improve and just see things differently. I urge everyone to give this a try, even if you have no interest in art because I have a strong feeling that the practices in here on different modes of thinking will drive you to use both sides of your brain to effectively solve problems in not just the artistic sense.
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| Get on with it B. Edwards!!! |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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I have not finished reading this book, but I felt compelled to do an early review for fear that any skills I gain while reading the book might dissuade me from leaving the negative comments that are just dying to burst out of me at this moment.
I am well into chapter four, and so far there has not been a single line of drawing instruction delivered by the author. There has been one exercise to establish a baseline, and one exercise to try to acquaint the reader with the feeling of left-brain - right-brain competition. I read some reviews of B. Edwards that noted her use of "psychobabble." I have a B.A. in Philosophy with a minor in Psychology (M.S. in Computer Science) and as such, I am not opposed to psychobabble, nor am I opposed to B. Edwards interest or exposition about dichotomous brain functions and the duality of processing. What does piss me off is the fact that I have faithfully drudged through four chapters of her repeating essentially the same thought OVER and OVER and OVER. Seriously, she has told me that the left-brain thinks serially and in words and symbols, and that the right-brain thinks holistically and spatially. And she has told me almost nothing else. So far, it reads like an infomercial.
At the moment, I do believe that the point of this book is valid--that its a slow starter--and that its going to win me over through results in the end. The fact that my faith still holds is why I have given it two stars instead of one. The fact that this does not make up for the absurd repetition is why I am reviewing it early.
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| What I expected |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I bought this as a gift to an artist, who has just started looking at it and the first reaction was very positive, as there are many things one can learn from that book.
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| Great concepts |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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This book presents a very ineresting take on art theory. It is the authors opinion that Anyone can learn to draw, somthing traditional artists would tend to take issue with. She seeks to train the eye and not as much the hands. If you access the right brain mode of truly "seeing" she feels anyone can draw. And might I say IT WORKS. Try it!!!
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