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Format: x, 508 pages, 2 pages of plates , illustrations , 23 x 15.5 cm

Edition: Expanded and revised edition, reprint: 50th anniversary printing

ISBN: 9780520023277 , 9780520026131 , 9780520243835 , 0520023277 , 0520026136 , 0520243838

Content: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE (50th anniversary edition, 2004): "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."

Content: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE (revised edition, 1974): "Since its first publication in 1954, this work has established itself as a unique classic. It applies the approaches and findings of modern psychology to the study of art; it describes the visual process that takes place when people create -- or look at -- works in the various arts, and explains how they organize visual material according to definite psychological laws. Artists, critics, art historians, students, and general readers have found it a highly readable book. Now Arnheim has thoroughly revised and enlarged the text and adds new illustrations, taking advantage of recent developments in his own work and that of others."

Note: EDITORIAL NOTE: 1st edition: ©1954 , EDITORIAL NOTE: this revised edition originally published: ©1974 , Preface to the new version -- Introduction -- Balance -- Shape -- Form -- Growth -- Space -- Light -- Color -- Movement -- Dynamics -- Expression -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (200 p.) : , 1 frontisp.

Edition: Reprint 2020

ISBN: 0-520-91764-2

Content: Rudolf Arnheim's great forte is his ability to illuminate the perceptual processes that go into the making and reception of artworks--painting, sculpture, architecture, and film. Over the years, his pioneering mode of "reading" art from a unique scientific/philosophic perspective has garnered him an established and devoted audience. That audience will take pleasure in Arnheim's most recent collection of essays, one that covers a range of topics and includes titles such as "Outer Space and Inner Space," "What Is an Aesthetic Fact?," "As I Saw Children's Art," "Two Ways of Being Human," "Consciousness--an Island of Images," and "From Chaos to Wholeness." The notion of structure is Arnheim's guide in these explorations. Most of the essays examine the nature of structure affirmatively: how it comes about, its incentives and objectives, its celebration of perfection. He is interested in how artists grope for structure to shape powerful, enlightening images, and how a scientist's search for truth is a search for structure. Writing with enviable clarity, even when deploying complex arguments, Arnheim makes it easy and exciting to follow him as he thinks. America is not abundantly supplied with "public intellectuals" such as Rudolf Arnheim--to have his writings with us is cause for celebration. "The word 'structure' appears for good reason in the title of this collection. . . . Structure seems to be needed as an arbiter wherever this civilization of ours is split by selfish interests and fighting for either/or decisions. The essays want to speak with the voice of reason, because they want to show how the parts require the whole.".

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Foreword -- , I -- , II -- , III -- , IV -- , V -- , VI -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-20478-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1525/9780520917644

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Format: 1 online resource (380 p.)

ISBN: 1-282-38290-X , 9786612382901 , 0-520-90905-4 , 0-585-29975-7

Content: For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books-known and prized the world over-such as Art and Visual Perception, Visual Thinking, and The Power of the Center (see list below). Now he has selected, from the remaining riches of his notebooks, the items in this volume. The book will be a joy to ramble through for all lovers of Arnheim's work, and indeed for anyone who shares Arnheim's contagious interest in the order that lies behind art, nature, and human life. It is a seedbed of ideas and observations in his special fields of psychology and the arts. "I have avoided mere images and I have avoided mere thoughts," says Arnheim in the Introduction, "but whenever an episode observed or a striking sentence read yielded a piece of insight I had not met before, I wrote it down and preserved it." There are also glimpses of his personal life-his wife, his cats, his students, his neighbors and colleagues. He is always concrete, in the manner that has become his trademark, often witty, and sometimes a bit wicked.In the blend of life and thought caught in these jottings, psychology and the arts are of course prominent. But philosophy, religion, and the natural sciences add to the medley of topics-always addressed in a way to sharpen the senses of the reader who, sharing Arnheim's cue from Dylan Thomas, may accompany him through "the parables of sun light and the legends of the green chapels and the twice told fields of childhood."All of Rudolf Arnheim's books have been published by the University of California Press.

Note: "A centennial book"--P. preceding t.p. , Frontmatter -- , Preface -- , 1959 -- , 1960 -- , 1961 -- , 1962 -- , 1963 -- , 1964 -- , 1965 -- , 1966 -- , 1967 -- , 1968 -- , 1969 -- , 1970 -- , 1971 -- , 1972 -- , 1973 -- , 1974 -- , 1975 -- , 1976 -- , 1977 -- , 1978 -- , 1979 -- , 1980 -- , 1981 -- , 1982 -- , 1983 -- , 1984 -- , 1985 -- , 1986 , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-520-06536-0

Language: English

DOI: 10.1525/9780520909052