New Essays on the Psychology of Art - Softcover

Arnheim, Rudolf

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. For many years he was a member of the Psychology Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and he spent his last ten academic years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he now lives.

About this edition

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