New Essays on the Psychology of Art by Rudolf Arnheim. University of California Press. Paperback. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that’ll have the markings and stickers associated from the library.
New Essays on the Psychology of Art. by Rudolf Arnheim Publisher's Description Arnheim's concern continues to be visual perception as the mind's instrument to explore reality. He examines the roots of theories of artistic perception in essays on art psychologists Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer.
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.
Rudolf Arnheim (born July 15 1904) is a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist. He himself has said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982), but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he is most widely known.