New essays on the psychology of art
Rudolf Arnheim.
- Berkeley University of California Press c1986.
- xi, 331 p. ill. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Concerning an adoration -- The double-edged mind: intuition and the intellect -- Max Wertheimer and gestalt psychology -- The other Gustav Theodor Fechner -- Wilhelm Worringer on abstraction and empathy -- Unity and diversity of the arts -- A stricture on space and time -- Language, image, and concrete poetry -- On the nature of photography -- Splendor and misery of the photographer -- The tools of art, old and new -- A plea for visual thinking -- Notes on the imagery of Dante's Purgatorio -- Inverted perspective and the axiom of realism -- Brunelleschi's peepshow -- The perception of maps -- The rationalization of color -- Perceptual dynamics in musical expression -- The perceptual challenge in art education -- Victor Lowenfeld and tactility -- Art as therapy -- Style as a gestalt problem -- On duplication -- On the late style --- Objective percepts, objective values. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4. pt. 5. pt. 6. pt. 7. pt. 8.