Visual Order : The Nature and Development of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction N. H. Freeman and M. V. Cox; 1. How meaning covers the traces Alan Costall; Commentary N. H. Freeman and M. V. Cox; 2. A perspective on traditional artistic practices Francis Pratt; 3. There is no development in art Margaret A. Hagen; 4. Drawing systems revisited: the role of denotation systems in children's figure drawings John Willats; 5. The adolescent's point of view: studies of forms in conflict R. K. Duthie; Commentary N. H. Freeman and M. V. Cox; 6. On the discovery, storage and use of graphic descriptions W. A. Phillips, M. Inall and E. Lauder; 7. Anomalous drawing development: some clinical studies Lorna Selfe; Commentary N. H. Freeman and M. V. Cox; 8. Young children's representational drawings of solid objects: a comparison of drawing and copying May Jane Chen; 9. Some children do sometimes do what they have been told to do: task demands and verbal instructions in children's drawing M. D. Barrett, A. V. Beaumont and M. S. Jennett; 10. One object behind another: young children's use of array-specific or view-specific representations M. V. Cox; 11. The canonical bias: young children's drawings of familiar objects Alyson M. Davies; 12. The development of view-specific representation considered from a socio-cognitive standpoint Paul Light; 13. Three into two won't go: symbolic and spatial coding processes in young children's drawings Nigel Ingram; 14. Knowledge and appearance Charles Crook; 15. The head is smaller than the body: but how does it join on? Juri Allik and Tiia Laak; Commentary N. H. Freeman and M. V. Cox; 16. Geometrical foundations of children's drawing Michael C. Mitchelmore; 17. Figural biases and young children's drawings J. Gavin Bremner; 18. Cross-cultural analysis of drawing errors Ruvide Bayraktar; 19. The perceptual-motor skill of drawing Judith I. Laszlo and Pia A. Broderick; 20. The transition from construction to sketching in children's drawings Larry Fenson; Conclusions N. H. Freeman and M. V. Cox; Indexes.