Visual Thinking
by Arnheim, RudolfFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1969-06-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary
The 35th anniversary of this classic of art theory.
Author Biography
Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
| Early stirrings | p. 1 |
| The intelligence of perception (i) | p. 13 |
| The intelligence of perception (ii) | p. 37 |
| Two and two together | p. 54 |
| The past in the present | p. 80 |
| The images of thought | p. 97 |
| Concepts take shape | p. 116 |
| Pictures, symbols, and signs | p. 135 |
| What abstraction is not | p. 153 |
| What abstraction is | p. 173 |
| With feet on the ground | p. 188 |
| Thinking with pure shapes | p. 208 |
| Words in their place | p. 226 |
| Art and thought | p. 254 |
| Models for theory | p. 274 |
| Vision in education | p. 294 |
| Notes | p. 317 |
| Bibliography | p. 325 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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