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  <title><![CDATA[Visual Thinking]]></title>
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  <default-description>For thirty-five years &lt;I&gt;Visual Thinking &lt;/I&gt;has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of &lt;I&gt;The Dynamics of Architectural Form, Film as Art, Toward a Psychology of Art, &lt;/I&gt;and &lt;I&gt;Art and Visual Perception, &lt;/I&gt;asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading. An indis-pensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[What if pictures, or hieroglyphics, could be made into a deeper and more complex langauge, that is yet more rapidly understandable and recognizable by the same order?  Text takes time to export and to absorb in relation to drawings, stalling the creative brainstorming process.  Arnheim shows how thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/300271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book a long time ago.  Now I am re-reading portions of it.  It makes me feel good.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim (2004)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim (2004)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[goo book but need patience to read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this as an undergraduate. Arnheim died last year and SLC, where he taught for several decades, is planning an event in Spring of 2008. It's one of those books that used to be absolutely required of anyone involved in the visual arts, though more recently, at least in poststructuralist art his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3208410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a bit dry, but it is a standard and it lays out the terrain where thinking about vision as formative of thought.  The two chapters on &quot;The intelligence of perception&quot; I and II, are a review of the philosophical discussions that frame this otherwise formalistic and psychologica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6681216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love this book!!<br/>the perfect way to learn how talk and listen without words.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Library of Congress has my copy of this book. ]]></body>
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