The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Features

Cover Type: Paperback with 320 pages

Published by: Tarcher; Rev Exp edition August 30, 1999

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0874774241

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0874774245

Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches

Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Book Description
illustrated with 12-page color photo insert and line art throughout

A revised and expanded edition of the classic drawing-instruction book that has sold more than 2,500,000 copies.

When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.

Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:

* the very latest developments in brain research;
* new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education;
* instruction on self-expression through drawing;
* an updated section on using color; and
* detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving.

Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life--artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers--have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."

About The Author
Dr. Betty Edwards is Professor Emeritus in Art at California State University in Long Beach. She has been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, Reader's Digest, Time magazine, New York magazine, Intuition magazine, and the Today show. She speaks about the relationship of drawing to brain process at universities, art schools, and major corporations, including IBM, General Electric, and Disney. She lives in Santa Monica, California.

Reader Reviews
About that "Right Side of the Brain" business: When this book first came out, the popular literature was clogged with popular works on left brain/right brain functionality, and most of it was total garbage- including most of the stuff on brain laterality in this volume. No matter, though; this is still a very good tutor for the beginning artist. The exercises work whether or not you think you're drawing on the right side of your brain. They're very well thought out, practical excercises that work. What they *aren't* is original. There's a very influential book that was first published in 1941 (and is still in print) entitled "The Natural Way to Draw", by Kimon Nicolaides. Nicolaides was a very influential artist who taught at New York's Aret Students League, and Edwards' book is essentially Nicolaides with a lot of nonsense about "R-mode" and "L-mode" that serves no practical didactic purpose. Edwards' book is still a good tutor for the novice, but Nicolaides is just as good- and in some ways, better. Comments (3) | | (Report this)

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