Visual Thinking

by Rudolf Arnheim
One typeface, one weight

One Early Stirlings - 1

Perception torn
from thinking.

Two The Intelligence of Perception (i) - 13

Perception as cognition.

Three The Intelligence of Perception (ii) - 37

Subtracting the context.

Four Two and Two Together - 54

Subtracting the context.

Five The Past in the Present - 80

Forces acting on memory.

Six The Images of Thought - 97

Subtracting the context.

Seven Concepts Take
Shape
- 116

Abstract gestures.

Eight Pictures, Symbols, and Signs - 135

The functions of images.

Nine What Abstraction Is Not - 153

A harmful
dichotomy.

Ten What Abstraction Is - 153

Types and containers.

Eleven With Feet on the Ground - 188

Abstraction as withdrawl.

Twelve Thinking With Pure Shapes - 208

Numbers reflect life.

Thirteen Words in Their Place - 226

Can one think in words?

Fourteen Art and Thought - 254

Thinking in children's drawings.

Fifteen Models for Theory - 274

Cosmological Shapes

Sixteen (Vision in Education) - 294

What is art for?