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