Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Rudolf Arnheim

ISBN 10: 0520000366 / ISBN 13: 9780520000360

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1971

About this Item

There is a stain on the front cove, looks like a coffee stain, stain is also on the top edge of the text but only on the edge did not go onto the pages, there are 2 sentences highlighted in the introduction, other than that no other markings, text is clear and bright, some light edge wear. nearer to very good than good.

Seller Inventory # Alibris.0012116

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520000366
• ISBN 13: 9780520000360
• Binding: Trade paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Good.

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Synopsis

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.

From the Inside Flap

"In The Ego and the Id Freud argued that a cogent thought process, to say nothing of conscious intellectual work, could not exist amidst the unruliness of visual experience. Over the last half century in a sequence of landmark books, Rudolf Arnheim has not only shown us how wrong that is, he has parsed the grammar of form with uncanny acuity and taught us how to read it."—Jonathan Fineberg, author of Art since 1940: Strategies of Being