Toward a psychology of art; collected essays.

By:

Arnheim, Rudolf

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1966.Description: viii, 369 p. illus. (part col.) 27 cmISBN:

0520021614
9780520021617

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

372.5 ADT

Contents:

Keynotes -- The sense of sight -- The visible world -- Symbols -- Generalities -- To teachers and artists.

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Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	372.5 ADT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	39002000117292
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Presents an interpretation of the expression of art and the relationship between this psychology and the art form. Bibliogs.

Includes bibliographies.

Keynotes -- The sense of sight -- The visible world -- Symbols -- Generalities -- To teachers and artists.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
I Keynotes
Form and the Consumer Agenda for the Psychology of Art
II The Sense of Sight
Perceptual Abstraction and Art
The Gestalt Theory of Expression
Perceptual and Aesthetic Aspects of the Movement
Response Perceptual Analysis of a Rorschach Card
A Review of Proportion
III The Visible World
Order and Complexity in Landscape Design
The Myth of the Bleating Lamb
Art History and the Partial
God Accident and the Necessity of
Art Melancholy Unshaped From Function to Expression
IV Symbols
Artistic Symbols--Freudian and Otherwise
Perceptual Analysis of a Symbol of Interaction
Four Analyses: The Holes of Henry Moore
A Note on Monsters Picasso's "Nightfishing at Antibes" Concerning the Dance Abstract Language and the Metaphor
V Generalities
On Inspiration Contemplation and Creativity
Emotion and Feeling in Psychology and Art
The Robin and the Saint
VI To Teachers and Artists
What Kind of Psychology?
Is Modern Art Necessary?
The Form we Seek
Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. For many years he was a member of the Psychology Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and he spent his last ten academic years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he now lives.