Visual Thinking

Rudolf Arnheim

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1. Early Stirrings

Perception torn from thinking

2. The Intelligence of Perception (i)

Perception as cognition.

3. The Intelligence of Perception (ii)

Subtracting the context.

4. Two and Two Together

Relations depend on structure.

5. The Past in the Present

Forces acting on memory.

6. The Images of Thought

What are mental images like?

7. Concepts Take Shape

Abstract gestures.

8. Pictures, Symbols, and Signs

The function of images

9. What Abstraction Is Not

A harmful dichotomy.

10. What Abstraction Is

Types and containers.

11. With Feet on the Ground

Abstraction as withdrawl.

12. Thinking With Pure Shapes

Numbers reflect life.

13. Words in Their Place

Can one think in words?

14. Art and Thought

Thinking in children's drawings.

15. Models for Theory

Cosmological shapes.

16. Vision in Education

What is art for?