- a new introduction;
- crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain;
- new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.;
- an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood scribbling to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity;
- and new reproductions of master drawings throughout
2013 Nautilus Books for a Better World Silver winner as Best Creative Process Book
Betty Edwards speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies. Now retired from her position as professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, Edwards received her doctorate from UCLA in art, education, and the psychology of perception. Dr. Edwards has been profiled on the Today show and in Time, among other magazines and newspapers. She lives in California.
Tarcherperigee
Pub Date: April 26, 2012
0.8" H x 8.9" L x 7.3" W
284 pages
paperback