Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

About this book

Since its first publication in 1954 this work has established itself as a unique classic. It applies the approaches and findings of modern psychology to the study of art; it descirbes the visual process that takes place when people create - or look at - works in the various arts and explains how they organize visual material according to definite psychological laws. Artists critics art historicans students and general readers have found it a highly readable book. Now Arnheim has throughtly revised and enlarged the text and adds new illustrations taking advantage of recent developments in his own work and that of others.