Visual thinking
Rudolf Arnheim
1. Early Stirrings
The Intelligence of Perception (i) 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