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Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
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. Arti...more
Paperback, 2nd, revised new version, 508 pages
Published
September 12th 1974
by University of California Press
(first published 1954)
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For anyone pursuing art as a lifetime adventure/endeavor, this is your art bible. This book was pivotal in opening my mind to a multifaceted way of looking at visual organization, composition and development. It gave me a hunger to create that still fuels me today. Rudolf Arnheim is often overlooked as a pusher of modernist thinking and perhaps that he is maybe out of style or old school, this is SO untrue. Yes, he is from the modernist era and references many artists from that era because of wh...more
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Everyone who reads this book in its entirety is guaranteed to wind up appreciating (and even 'understanding') abstract modernist art- I know I did. Contrary to what someone said here I would say this stuff does sink in- mainly because Arnheim managed to present his observations clearly, and illustrated them convincingly with visuals, in the form of reproductions or explanatory sketches by the author himself.
Arnheim's book will equip its readers with not just a vocabulary, but a whole grammar for...more
Arnheim's book will equip its readers with not just a vocabulary, but a whole grammar for...more
I am so grateful this was required reading in college, and over the years I periodically reread it, all or in part. It is a touchstone of epistemology for cognative perception and appreciation of art, design, experience, etc., and how the mind makes sense of the visual world.
هذا كتاب أقل ما يقال أنه رائع ، يفسر كثير من الجوانب المتعلقة بالابداع البصري ، ،وهو مرجع ممتاز في مجاله
Buena teoría del arte dimensional, sustentada en la corporalidad humana.
Very similar to Visual Thinking, but a bit broader and contends with sociological & cultural considerations within the history of Art and science. Not quite as condensed, as Visual Thinking is essays, but a much deeper and more interesting book overall.
As an artist I find this book is a must read. It's difficult but essential.
This book is great but practically the longest sentence ever.
Not an easy read but a necessary one
good reference book
A lot of reading. What do I remember?
Whew!
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Had to read it in College for a course...found that it seminal in how I looked at and processed the world around me. You can say that it helped me appreciate the intellectual life, instead of snearing at it from my anti-establishment, anti-conformist, angsty "punk rock" attitude as a teen.
Classic, but like Classic Coke, there can be too much of a good thing. In the hands of artists, well, like academic art classes, they may want to study it and then forget it.
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