New essays on the psychology of art Rudolf Arnheim

By:

Arnheim, Rudolf

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley London University of California Press c1986ISBN:

0520055543

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701.15 ARN

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	701.15 ARN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000147653

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly.

In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps.

Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.

Includes index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rudolf Arnheim (1904--2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. He was author of many books, including Art and Visual Perception , Film as Art , The Power of the Center , and Visual Thinking .