Visual Thinking

By Rudolf Arnheim

Book Overview

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 indis-pensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520242262
• ISBN13: 9780520242265
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Indispensable.

Arnheim always sheds some new light on his subjects, and this book might be his most enlightening. Whether you care about art, education, perception, or simply living a full human life, this book will make you think about the subject in a new way. Grounded in careful analysis of specific objects and experiences, Arnheim nonetheless manages to convey the importance of his ideas to the wider subject of human consciousness.