| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 188 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-188). |
| Contents |
Arnheim and different approaches to the psychology of art -- Expression, symbolism and visual thinking -- The senses, perceptual objects and their dynamics -- Notorious Gestalt brain model -- Dynamics of pictorial, sculptural and architectural form -- Dynamics of pantomimic form -- Dynamics of musical form -- Dynamics of poetic form -- Art in comparative perspective: children, adults, cultures -- Dynamics of microgenetic artistic development -- Individual artistic development -- Dynamics of differential and psychopathological artistic form -- Dynamics of cultural-perceptual form -- Objective percepts, objective values -- Appendix: life of a psychologist of art. |
| Summary |
"Arnheim, Gestalt and Art is the first book-length discussion of the powerful thinking of the psychologist of art, Rudolf Arnheim. Written as a complete overview of Arnheim's thinking, it covers fundamental issues of the importance of psychological discussion of the arts, the status of gestalt psychology, the various sense modalities and media, and developmental issues."--Jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Arnheim, Rudolf.
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Gestalt psychology.
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Art.
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Arnheim, Rudolf.
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Gestalt Theory.
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Art.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Gestalt.
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Arnheim, Rudolf.
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Gestalt psychology.
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Art.
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Gestalt Theory.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Verstegen, Ian. Arnheim, Gestalt, and art. Wien ; New York, NY : Springer, ©2005 3211288643 9783211288641 (DLC) 2005933044 (OCoLC)62363743 |
| ISBN |
9783211307625 (electronic bk.) |
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3211307621 (electronic bk.) |
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1280610271 |
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9781280610271 |
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