"In The Ego and the Id 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."--Jonathan Feinburg, author of Art since 1940: Strategies
of Being
Description
Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established
itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological
terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual
material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this
book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to
burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking
theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.
"In The Ego and the Id 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." - Jonathan Fineburg, author of Art since 1940: Strategies of Being"
Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. His books include Film as Art (California, 1957), Visual Thinking (1969), The Dynamics of Architectural Form (California, 1977), The Split and the Structure: Twenty-eight Essays (California, 1996).
