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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Rudolf Arnheim |
ISBN: | 0520023277 9780520023277 0520026136 9780520026131 0520243838 9780520243835 |
OCLC Number: | 1100439 |
Notes: | This is an expanded and revised edition, with some new illustrations, of the original publication of 1954. |
Description: | x, 508 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Balance -- Shape -- Form -- Growth -- Space -- Light -- Color -- Movement -- Dynamics -- Expression. |
Responsibility: | Rudolf Arnheim. |
Abstract:
Gestalt theory and the psychology of visual perception form the basis for an analysis of art and its basic elements.
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"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" Read more...
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