Visual Thinking

Rudolf Arnheim

1Early Stirrings

Perception torn from thinking

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2The Intelligence of Perception (i)

Perception as cognition

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3The Intelligence of Perception (ii)

Subtracting the context.

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4Two and Two Together

Relations depend on structure.

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5The Past in the Present

Forces acting on memory.

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6The Images of Thought

What are mental images like?.

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7Concepts Take Shape

Abstract gestures.

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8Pictures, Symbols, and Signs

The functions of images.

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9What Abstraction Is Not

A harmful dichotomy.

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10What Abstraction Is

Types and containers.

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11With Feet on the Ground

Abstraction as withdrawl.

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12Thinking With Pure Shapes

Numbers reflect life.

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13Words in Their Place

Can one think in words?

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14Art and Thought

Thinking in children's drawings.

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15Models for Theory

Cosmological shapes.

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16Vision in Education

What is art for?

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Notes

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Bibliography

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Index

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