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Author Verstegen, Ian

Title Arnheim, Gestalt, and art : a psychological theory / Ian Verstegen
Published Wien ; New York, NY : Springer, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 188 pages) : illustrations
Contents Arnheim and different approaches to the psychology of art -- Expression, symbolism and visual thinking -- The senses, perceptual objects and their dynamics -- Notorious Gestalt brain model -- Dynamics of pictorial, sculptural and architectural form -- Dynamics of pantomimic form -- Dynamics of musical form -- Dynamics of poetic form -- Art in comparative perspective: children, adults, cultures -- Dynamics of microgenetic artistic development -- Individual artistic development -- Dynamics of differential and psychopathological artistic form -- Dynamics of cultural-perceptual form -- Objective percepts, objective values -- Appendix: life of a psychologist of art
Summary "Arnheim, Gestalt and Art is the first book-length discussion of the powerful thinking of the psychologist of art, Rudolf Arnheim. Written as a complete overview of Arnheim's thinking, it covers fundamental issues of the importance of psychological discussion of the arts, the status of gestalt psychology, the various sense modalities and media, and developmental issues."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-188)
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In Springer e-books
Subject Arnheim, Rudolf
Arnheim, Rudolf
Arnheim, Rudolf.
Arnheim, Rudolf
Gestalt psychology.
Art.
Gestalt Theory
Art
PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Gestalt.
Gestalt psychology.
Art.
Gestalt Theory.
Art
Gestalt psychology
Genre/Form Electronic books
works of art.
Art
Art.
Œuvres d'art.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005933044
ISBN 3211288643
9783211288641
9783211307625
3211307621
1280610271
9781280610271
9786610610273
6610610274