New Essays on the Psychology of Art - Softcover

Arnheim, Rudolf

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9780520055544: New Essays on the Psychology of Art
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520055543 ISBN 13: 9780520055544
Publisher: University of California Press, 1986

Synopsis

Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly.

In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps.

Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.

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About the Author

Rudolf Arnheim (1904—2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. He was author of many books, including Art and Visual Perception, Film as Art, The Power of the Center, and Visual Thinking. 

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Publisher
University of California Press
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0520055543
ISBN 13 
9780520055544
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
348
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