Title: New essays on the psychology of art /
Authors: Arnheim, Rudolf.
Date: 1986
Publisher: University of California Press,
Physical description: xi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly. In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.
Contents: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art--Psychology.; Visual perception.