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 indispensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts.

Author: Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/16/2004
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.18w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780520242265
ISBN10: 0520242262
BISAC Categories:
- Art | General
- Psychology | Developmental | Child
- Architecture | General

About the Author
Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 - June 9, 2007) was an author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist, as well as Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. His books include Film as Art (California, 1957), Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (California, 1974), The Dynamics of Architectural Form (California, 1977), and The Split and the Structure: Twenty-eight Essays (California, 1996).