Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Description

Since its first publication in 1954, this work has established itself as a unique classic. It applies the approaches and findings of modern psychology to the study of art; it descirbes the visual process that takes place when people create - or look at - works in the various arts, and explains how they organize visual material according to definite psychological laws. Artists, critics, art historicans, students, and general readers have found it a highly readable book. Now Arnheim has throughtly revised and enlarged the text and adds new illustrations, taking advantage of recent developments in his own work and that of others.

Product Details

Price

$39.54

Publisher

University of California Press

Publish Date

November 08, 2004

Pages

508

Dimensions

6.4 X 9.1 X 1.4 inches | 1.6 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780520243835

BISAC Categories:

Criticism & Theory

Aesthetics

General

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About the Author

Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. His books include Film as Art (California, 1957), Visual Thinking (1969), The Dynamics of Architectural Form (California, 1977), The Split and the Structure: Twenty-eight Essays (California, 1996).

Reviews

". . . . definitive. . . . Translated into fourteen languages, it is one of the most widely-read and influential art books of the century."-- "Leonardo"
"The clear, direct, flexible writing is powerfully reinforced by the numerous illustrations . . . not one of which is superfluous."-- "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"
"A book which reflects so well the author's urbanity, catholicity, and keenness of mind, as well as his technical grasp of the scientific and the artistic, is no small achievement."-- "Psychological Bulletin"
"In this much-needed book, the author brings together the results of good thinking in areas, heretofore, comparatively removed from one another."-- "Audio-Communication Bulletin"
"The author starts with a kernel of hard-boiled psychological fact . . . as a landing platform for a soaring stratospheric flight into a beautiful, amorphous sky."-- "Quarterly Review of Biology"

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