Visual thinking / Rudolf Arnheim.

By:

Arnheim, Rudolf

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2004.Description: xi, 345 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:

9780520242265 (pbk.) :
0520242262 (pbk) :

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701ARN

LOC classification:

Contents:

1.Early stirrings -- 2.The intelligence of perception -- 3.The intelligence of perception -- 4.Two and two together -- 5.The past in the present -- 6.The images of thought -- 7.Concepts take shape -- 8.Pictures, symbols, and signs -- 9.What abstraction is not -- 10.What abstraction is -- 11.With feet on the ground -- 12.Thinking with pure shapes -- 13.Words in their place -- 14.Art and thought -- 15.Models for theory -- 16.Vision in education.

Summary: In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of 'The Dynamics of Architectural Form' and 'Art and Visual Perception' asserts that all thinking is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading.

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Originally published: 1969.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-338) and index.

In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of 'The Dynamics of Architectural Form' and 'Art and Visual Perception' asserts that all thinking is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading.