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... visual concept of an object is generally based on the totality of observations from any number of angles . Yet it is a visual concept and not a verbal defi- nition derived by intellectual abstraction from perceptual experiences . Intel ...
... visual concept of an object is generally based on the totality of observations from any number of angles . Yet it is a visual concept and not a verbal defi- nition derived by intellectual abstraction from perceptual experiences . Intel ...
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... visual concept of a human body . Since , in every example of overlapping , one unit is partly covered by the other , the curtailed unit must not only be made to look incomplete but it must also ask for the right kind of completion ...
... visual concept of a human body . Since , in every example of overlapping , one unit is partly covered by the other , the curtailed unit must not only be made to look incomplete but it must also ask for the right kind of completion ...
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... visual characteristics of an object . A draftsman charged with producing a faithful likeness of an electric clockwork or a frog's heart must invent a pattern that fits the object— exactly as the artist must do . And since producing a ...
... visual characteristics of an object . A draftsman charged with producing a faithful likeness of an electric clockwork or a frog's heart must invent a pattern that fits the object— exactly as the artist must do . And since producing a ...
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