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Art and visual perception : a psychology of the creative eye / Rudolf Arnheim.

By: Arnheim, Rudolf [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1974Edition: Revised and expanded edition.Description: x, 508 pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520243835 (paperback); 0520243838 .Subject(s): Art -- Psychology | Visual perceptionDDC classification: 701.15
Contents:
Balance -- Shape -- Form -- Growth -- Space -- Light -- Color -- Movement -- Dynamics -- Expression.
Summary: "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." - publisher's description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Balance -- Shape -- Form -- Growth -- Space -- Light -- Color -- Movement -- Dynamics -- Expression.

"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." - publisher's description.

CIT Module EDUC 8023 - Core reading.

CIT Module EDUC 9007 - Core reading.

CIT Module ARTS 7024 - Core reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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).

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