Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Arnheim, Rudolf

ISBN 10: 0520000366 / ISBN 13: 9780520000360

Published by University of California Press, 1971

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520000366
• ISBN 13: 9780520000360
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: Fifth Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 29 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

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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