Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Signed, Arnheim to Kepes)

Rudolf Arnheim

ISBN 10: 0520023277 / ISBN 13: 9780520023277

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974

About this Item

cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., sparse, minor rubbing to dj. very slight signs of handling. clean. no text or exterior markings. no bumps, tears, chips. flap price intact. strong binding.; inscribed by arnheim to gyorgy and juliet kepes 1977, on half-title page.; x-508pp., 280 b/w figures. expanded and revised edition with some new illustrations, originally published in 1954. a unique association copy between collaborators and friends. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (Signed, Arnheim to Kepes)
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520023277
• ISBN 13: 9780520023277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Expanded, Revised Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology
  • Art History, General

About this title

Synopsis

Gestalt theory and the psychology of visual perception form the basis for an analysis of art and its basic elements

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