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- catalog abstract ""This book explores the nature of one of the most ancient tools for nonverbal communication: drawings. Drawings require minimal apparatus: a planar surface and a pointed hard object to make marks on it. They are naturally adaptable enough to meet an incredibly wide range of communication needs. But how exactly do they do their job so well?" "Avoiding the kinds of aesthetic rankings of different graphic domains so often made by art historians and critics, Manfredo Massironi considers an extensive and representative sample of graphic applications with an open mind. He finds a deep mutuality between the material components of images and the activation of the perceptual and cognitive processes that create and decipher them." "Drawings are not simply tools for communication but important instruments for investigating reality and its structure. Richly illustrated, the book includes a series of graphic exercises that enable readers to get a sense of their own perceptual and cognitive activity when inspecting images. Massironi's path-breaking taxonomy of graphic productions will illuminate all the processes involved in producing and understanding graphic images for a wide audience. In fields ranging from perceptual and cognitive psychology through human factors and graphic design to architecture and art history."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12239824.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This book explores the nature of one of the most ancient tools for nonverbal communication: drawings. Drawings require minimal apparatus: a planar surface and a pointed hard object to make marks on it. They are naturally adaptable enough to meet an incredibly wide range of communication needs. But how exactly do they do their job so well?" "Avoiding the kinds of aesthetic rankings of different graphic domains so often made by art historians and critics, Manfredo Massironi considers an extensive and representative sample of graphic applications with an open mind. He finds a deep mutuality between the material components of images and the activation of the perceptual and cognitive processes that create and decipher them." "Drawings are not simply tools for communication but important instruments for investigating reality and its structure. Richly illustrated, the book includes a series of graphic exercises that enable readers to get a sense of their own perceptual and cognitive activity when inspecting images. Massironi's path-breaking taxonomy of graphic productions will illuminate all the processes involved in producing and understanding graphic images for a wide audience. In fields ranging from perceptual and cognitive psychology through human factors and graphic design to architecture and art history."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-306) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Invariance and transformation -- The elusive context -- The quest for balance -- What makes a graphic image work -- Visualizing the invisible -- Seeing and showing time -- Graphics and perception -- Ambiguity and information --Toward a taxonomy of drawings.".
- catalog extent "vii, 319 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0805829326 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0805829334 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng ita".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum,".
- catalog subject "2001 L-494".
- catalog subject "302.2/22 21".
- catalog subject "Adaptation, Psychological.".
- catalog subject "BF 241 M418p 2002".
- catalog subject "BF241 .M345 2002".
- catalog subject "Communication.".
- catalog subject "Drawing Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Visual Perception.".
- catalog subject "Visual communication.".
- catalog subject "Visual perception.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Invariance and transformation -- The elusive context -- The quest for balance -- What makes a graphic image work -- Visualizing the invisible -- Seeing and showing time -- Graphics and perception -- Ambiguity and information --Toward a taxonomy of drawings.".
- catalog title "The psychology of graphic images : seeing, drawing, communicating / Manfredo Massironi ; translated by Nicola Bruno.".
- catalog type "text".