Visual Order: The Nature and Development of Pictorial Representation

by Edited by N. H. Freeman , M. V. Cox

• ISBN13: 9780521127097
• ISBN10: 0521127092
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection brings together and integrates topical research on the nature and development of pictorial representation by twenty investigators - psychologists, artists and educationalists from several countries. Four themes dominate the book: What is a picture, and what makes a picture successful? What mental apparatus is called into play by the person who tries to draw? What information do children typically try to capture in a range of conditions, both normal and abnormal? How accurate can we expect children to be in pursuit of their own graphic goals? In the ten years leading up to the book's publication in 1985, major advances had been made in the scientific study of line drawing and this book presents many exciting insights into this field at the point of its development.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

How meaning covers the traces

Commentary

A perspective on traditional artistic practices

There is no development in art

Drawing systems revisited: the role of denotation systems in children's figure drawings

The adolescent's point of view: studies of forms in conflict

Commentary

On the discovery, storage and use of graphic descriptions

Anomalous drawing development: some clinical studies

Commentary

Young children's representational drawings of solid objects: a comparison of drawing and copying

Some children do sometimes do what they have been told to do: task demands and verbal instructions in children's drawing

One object behind another: young children's use of array-specific or view-specific representations

The canonical bias: young children's drawings of familiar objects

The development of view-specific representation considered from a socio-cognitive standpoint

Three into two won't go: symbolic and spatial coding processes in young children's drawings

Knowledge and appearance

The head is smaller than the body: but how does it join on?

Commentary

Geometrical foundations of children's drawing

Figural biases and young children's drawings

Cross-cultural analysis of drawing errors

The perceptual-motor skill of drawing

The transition from construction to sketching in children's drawings

Conclusions

Indexes

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