Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition
A Psychology of the Creative Eye
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 8. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-520-24383-5 (ISBN)
Description
Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.
Reviews / Votes
"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 Fineburg, author of Art since 1940: Strategies of Being"More details
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
281 b-w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
737 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-24383-5 (9780520243835)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
09/2020
2nd Edition
De Gruyter
€31.99
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Previous edition
Rudolf Arnheim
Art and Visual Perception
A Psychology of the Creative Eye, The New Version, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged
Book
09/1974
2nd Edition
University of California Press
€19.78
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Person
Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. His books include Film as Art (California, 1957), Visual Thinking (1969), The Dynamics of Architectural Form (California, 1977), The Split and the Structure: Twenty-eight Essays (California, 1996).