Visual Thinking"Groundbreaking when first published in 1969, this book is now of even greater relevance to make the reader aware of the need to educate the visual sense, a matter so harmfully neglected in the present system."--Peter Selz, author of Nathan Oliveira "Freud argued that a cogent thought process, to say nothing of conscious intellectual work, could not exist amidst the unruliness of visual experience. Over the last half century in a sequence of landmark books, Rudolf Arnheim has not only shown us how wrong that is, he has parsed the grammar of form with uncanny acuity and taught us how to read it. Few books continue to speak to the generations after them; Visual Thinking is one of those rare exceptions."--Jonathan Fineberg, author of Art Since 1940 |
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Contents
Early Stirrings | 1 |
The Intelligence of Perception i | 15 |
The Intelligence of Perception ii | 38 |
Two and Two Together | 54 |
The Past in the Present | 80 |
The Images of Thought | 97 |
Concepts Take Shape | 116 |
Pictures Symbols and Signs | 135 |
With Feet on the Ground | 188 |
Thinking With Pure Shapes | 208 |
Words in Their Place | 226 |
Art and Thought | 254 |
Models for Theory | 274 |
Vision in Education | 294 |
Notes | 317 |
| 325 | |
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abstraction animal appearance Aristotle artist aspects behavior called chap character child chimpanzee circle cognitive color common complete contains context depict derived described distinguish drawing elements entities example experience eyes fact Figure function geometrical gestalt psychology given grasp highspots human ideas illustrate imagery individual instances intelligence interaction Jean Piaget Karl Duncker kind language look marriage Max Wertheimer means mechanical memory mental images mind nature observer operations organized painting particular patient pattern patterns of forces Paul Klee perceived perception person pictorial picture Plato present principle problem produce productive thinking psychology pure refer relation relevant Roger Price seen sense sensory sequence serve shape similar simple situation space spatial stimulus structure symbol symmetrical task theory things thought tion traits triangle true verbal visible vision visual concepts visual field visual perception visual thinking whole words
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| Title | Visual Thinking |
| Author | Rudolf Arnheim |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, annotated |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1969 |
| ISBN | 0520242262, 9780520242265 |
| Length | 345 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / General Art / General Psychology / Developmental / Child |
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