Visual Thinking

Rudolph Arnheim

One Early Stirrings

Perception torn from thinking.

Page 1
TwoThe Intelligence of Perception

Perception as Cognition

Page 13
Three The Intelligence of Perception

Subtracting the Context

Page 37
Four Two and Two Together

Relations Depend on Structure

Page 54
Five The Past in the Present

Forces Acting on Memory

Page 80
Six The Images of Thought

What Are Mental Images Like?

Page 97
Seven Concepts Take Shape

Page 116

Eight Pictures, Symbols, and Signs

The Functions of Images

Page 135
Nine What Abstraction Is Not

A Harmful Dichotomy

Page 153
Ten What Abstraction Is

Types and Containers

Page 153
Eleven With Feet on the Ground

Abstraction as Withdrawl

Page 188
Twelve Thinking With Pure Shapes

Numbers Reflect Life

Page 208
Thirteen Words in Their Place

Can One Think in Words?

Page 226
Fourteen Art and Thought

Thinking in Children's Drawingst

Page 254
Fifteen Models for Theory

Cosmological Shapes

Page 274
Sixteen Vision in Education

What is Art For?

Page 294
Notes Page 17
Bibliography Page 325
Index Page 339