Drawing and the Blind: Pictures to Touch

by John M. Kennedy

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This groundbreaking work explores how children and adults who have been blind since birth can both perceive and draw pictures. John M. Kennedy, a perception psychologist, relates how pictures in raised form can be understood by the blind, and how untrained blind people can make recognizable sketches of objects, situations, and events using new methods for raised-line drawing. According to Kennedy, the ability to draw develops in blind people as it...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300054904

ISBN13:9780300054903

Release Date:June 1993

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:392 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"

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