conceptual guide to artistic composition--seminal work

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	• Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Rudolf Arnheim University of California Press, 2004 - 518 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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The Best book on form perception

This book is a treasure for all artists, and architects.It is a good book with many illustrations and analysis. If You need to know how to deal with forms, shapes, and their parameters as a professional, this is the right book to buy. Sometimes I think that it is too late to read again about form,but Arnhiem's book is not only about form perception it is about life experience in how to read things in scientific and detailed approach.

conceptual guide to artistic composition--seminal work

Arnheim's book on the creative eye has survived well over half a century, for a reason. This is a truly seminal work on "seeing" and composing artistic images. He deals primarily with painting. I am a photographer. This book means as much to the current photographer with digital camera as to the artist with easel canvas and brush. Fascinating reading illustrated with classic examples. Re-shapes the mind. I bought copies for all of my friends who are, like me, serious shooters.

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Very important reading for any serious artist

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
by Rudolf Arnheim is a work of great importance to any serious artist. In a nutshell, Arnheim tells us in language only we (artists) could fully appreciate and comprehend how our brains and our eyes do so naturally what they do. This is a left brained guy who is fascinated by we right brained people. This work and his other masterpiece "Visual Thinking" make me delighted to be a visual thinker.

Art and Visual Perception

Good book, but I was expecting more images with description of contents rather than general theory.

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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.

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