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Rudolf Arnheim · 1974
A comprehensive psychological study of visual perception and artistic creation, examining how the eye and mind process shape, color, space, movement, and other visual phenomena as unified principles underlying all art. Arnheim argues for the integration of sensory perception with intellectual understanding in appreciating and creating art.
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What this book knows
Vision is active thought: perception organizes, weighs, and expresses meaning without waiting for the intellect to catch up.
mind-and-cognition
The appearance of any element depends on its place and function in an overall pattern — the active striving for unity and order manifest in the simple act of looking.
AVPP-RC-008A well-organized line figure imposes itself upon all observers as basically the same shape — an antidote to the nightmare of unbounded subjectivism and relativism.
AVPP-RC-009embodiment
The sadness or happiness of the mood seems directly inherent in the movements themselves — formal factors in the dance reproduce identical factors in the mood.
AVPP-RC-018The dynamic qualities of shapes, colors, and events proved to be an inseparable aspect of all visual experience, giving access to what remains to be said about expression.
AVPP-RC-013education-and-formation
The delicate balance of all a person's powers — alone permitting him to live fully and work well — is upset when the intellect interferes with intuition, or sensation dislodges reasoning.
AVPP-RC-006How expression and state of mind belonged together had to be learned, as a language is learned — nothing in the signs suggests the meaning.
AVPP-RC-017Illuminates
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