Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye [Anglais] [Broché]

The clear, direct, flexible writing is powerfully reinforced by the numerous illustrations . . . not one of which is superfluous.

Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology. Illustrations: 281 b/w illustrations --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .

"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 --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Broché .

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.