Visual Thinking: Thirty-Fifth Anniversary PrintingFor 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 indispensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts. |
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animal appearance Aristotle Arnheim artist aspects behavior called chap chimpanzee circle cognitive color common complete context depict derived described distinguish drawing elements entities evidence example experience eyes fact Figure Figure and ground function geometrical gestalt psychology gestures given grasp highspots human ideas illustrate imagery individual instances intelligence interaction Jean Piaget kind language look marriage Max Wertheimer means mechanical memory mental images mind nature non-mimetic observer operations organized painting particular pattern patterns of forces Paul Klee perceived perception person physical object pictorial picture Plato present principle problem productive thinking psychology reasoning refer relation relevant seen sense sensory sequence similar simple situation Solomon E space spatial stimulus structure suggested symbol symmetrical takes task theory things thought tion traits triangle verbal visible vision visual concepts visual field visual perception visual thinking whole words