Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain / Betty Edwards

Identifier:REF.TD.2234

Dimensions:254 p. : ill. (some colored) ; 9 in.

Copyright dates:1989

Description:"When Betty Edwards's book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, was first published in 1979, it received an immediate positive response and, to everyone’s surprise, remained on the New York Times's Best Sellers List for nearly a year. Over the years since then, Dr. Edwards has revised the book three times to include advances and clarifications in the teaching techniques and the underlying theory. The book is now widely accepted by artists, teachers, and others around the world. The teaching methods Dr. Edwards presents in the book are largely based on the Nobel Prize-winning work of Dr. Roger W. Sperry, (1913-1994), the eminent neuropsychologist and neurobiologist at CalTech (the California Institute of Technology) in Pasadena. His work focused on the lateralization of verbal, analytic, sequential functions, which, for most individuals, are mainly located in the left hemisphere; and the visual, spatial, perceptual functions, mainly located in most individuals’ right hemispheres." -- from drawright.com, author's website