Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Second Edition, Fiftieth Anniversary Printing

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ISBN-10: 9780520243835
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"Definitive. . . . translated into fourteen languages, it is one of the most widely-read and influential art books of the century." ― Leonardo

"The clear, direct, flexible writing is powerfully reinforced by the numerous illustrations . . . not one of which is superfluous." ― Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

"A book which reflects so well the author's urbanity, catholicity, and keenness of mind, as well as his technical grasp of the scientific and the artistic, is no small achievement." ― Psychological Bulletin

"In this much-needed book, the author brings together the results of good thinking in areas, heretofore, comparatively removed from one another." ― Audio-Communication Bulletin

"The author starts with a kernel of hard-boiled psychological fact . . . as a landing platform for a soaring stratospheric flight into a beautiful, amorphous sky." ― Quarterly Review of Biology

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"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 Fineberg, author of Art since 1940: Strategies of Being


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Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0520243838
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; Second Edition, Fiftieth Anniversary Printing (November 8, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 518 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780520243835
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520243835
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
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