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Visual Thinking
by Rudolf Arnheim
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For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of The Dynamics of Architectural Form, Film as Art, Toward a Psychology of Art, and Art and Visual Perception, asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading. An indispensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts.
"This book is an attempt to proceed from earlier studies of art to a broader concern with visual perception as a cognitive activity-- a reversal, one might say, of the historical development that led in the philosophy of the eighteenth century from 'aisthesis' to aesthetics, from sensory experience in general to the arts in particular."--Preface.
"This book is an attempt to proceed from earlier studies of art to a broader concern with visual perception as a cognitive activity-- a reversal, one might say, of the historical development that led in the philosophy of the eighteenth century from 'aisthesis' to aesthetics, from sensory experience in general to the arts in particular."--Preface.
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- University of California Brand
- Apr 16, 2004 Pub Date:
- 0520242262 ISBN-10:
- 9780520242265 ISBN-13:
- 352 Pages
- 8.98 in * 6.18 in * 0.85 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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