Visual Thinking
Rudolf Arnheim

1Early Stirrings

Perception torn from thinking

Page 1
2The Intelligence of Perception

Perception as cognition

Page 13
3The Intelligence of Perception

Subtracting the context

Page 37
4Two and Two Together

Relations depend on structure

Page 54
5The Past in the Present

Forces acting on memory

Page 80
6The Images of Thought

What are mental images like?

Page 97
7Concepts Take Shape

Abstract gestures

Page 116
8Pictures, Symbols, and Signs

The functions of images

Page 135
9What Abstraction Is Not

A harmful dichotomy

Page 153
10What Abstraction Is

Types and containers

Page 153
11With Feet on the Ground

Abstraction as withdrawl

Page 188
12Thinking With Pure Shapes

Numbers reflect life

Page 208
13Words in Their Place

Can one think in words?

Page 226
14Art and Thought

Thinking in children's drawings

Page 254
15Models for Theory

Cosmological shapes

Page 274
16Vision in Education

What is art for?

Page 294
Notes Page 317
Bibliogaraphy Page 325
Index Page 339