Visual thinking
"For 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 indis-pensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts."--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, ©1997
35th anniversary printing View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1997
xi, 345 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
9780520242265, 0520242262
55201666
Early stirrings
The intelligence of perception
Two and two together
The past in the present
The images of thought
Concepts take shape
Pictures, symbols, and signs
What abstraction is not
What abstraction is
With feet on the ground
Thinking with pure shapes
Words in their place
Art and thought
Models for theory
Vision in education