Visual Thinking ≈C Contents

1. Early Stirrings – 1 Perception torn from thinking.



2. The Intelligence of Perception (i) – 13 Perception as cognition.



3. The Intelligence of Perception (ii) – 37 Subtracting the context.



4. Two and Two Together – 54 Relations depend on structure.



5. The Past in the Present – 80 Forces acting on memory.



6. The Images of Thought – 97 What are mental images like?



7. Concepts Take Shape – 116 Abstract gestures.



8. Pictures, Symbols, and Signs – 135 The functions of images.



9. What Abstraction Is Not – 153 A harmful dichotomy.



10. What Abstraction Is – 153 Types and containers.



11. With Feet on the Ground – 188 Abstraction as withdrawal.



12. Thinking With Pure Shapes – 208 Numbers reflect life.



13. Words in Their Place – 226 Can one think in words?



14. Art and Thought – 254 Thinking in children's drawings.



15. Models for Theory – 274 Cosmological shapes.



16. Vision in Education – 294 What is art for?



Notes – 317



Bibliography – 325



Index – 339