Toward a Psychology of Art - Collected Essays

Zusatztext "A worthy companion to Art and Visual Perception . . . The two books together form one of the outstanding contributions of this century to the psychology of art."  Informationen zum Autor Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. He was author of many books! including Art and Visual Perception ! Film as Art ! Power of the Center ! and Visual Thinking . Klappentext "Arnheim was a distinguished psychologist, philosopher, and critic whose work explored the cognitive basis of art--how we interpret it and, by extension, the world." -- Cabinet   "Uncommonly persuasive, eloquent, and useful." -- The Time Educational Supplement   "A worth companion to Art and Visual Perception . . . The two books together form one of the outstanding contributions of this century to the psychology of art." -- Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Zusammenfassung Based on the assumption that art is subject to psychology, accessible to understanding, and needed for any comprehensive survey of mental functioning, this book offers psychological findings range from experiments in the perception of shape or observations on the art work of children to broad deliberations on nature of images or of inspiration.

Product details

• Authors: Rudolf Arnheim, Arnheim Rudolf
• Assisted by: Rudolf Arnheim (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.08.2010
• EAN: 9780520266018
• ISBN: 978-0-520-26601-8
• No. of pages: 380
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought