Toward a Psychology of Art

by Arnheim, Rudolf

• ISBN13: 9780520021617
• ISBN10: 0520021614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1966-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

'A worthy companion to the writer's Art and Visual Perception, and the two books together form one of the outstanding contributions of this century to the psychology of art.'--Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Table of Contents

Introduction

Keynotes

Form and the Consumer Agenda for the Psychology of Art

The Sense of Sight

Perceptual Abstraction and Art

The Gestalt Theory of Expression

Perceptual and Aesthetic Aspects of the Movement

Response Perceptual Analysis of a Rorschach Card

A Review of Proportion

The Visible World

Order and Complexity in Landscape Design

The Myth of the Bleating Lamb

Art History and the Partial

God Accident and the Necessity of

Art Melancholy Unshaped From Function to Expression

Symbols

Artistic Symbols--Freudian and Otherwise

Perceptual Analysis of a Symbol of Interaction

Four Analyses: The Holes of Henry Moore

A Note on Monsters Picasso's "Nightfishing at Antibes" Concerning the Dance Abstract Language and the Metaphor

Generalities

On Inspiration Contemplation and Creativity

Emotion and Feeling in Psychology and Art

The Robin and the Saint

To Teachers and Artists

What Kind of Psychology?

Is Modern Art Necessary?

The Form we Seek

Index

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