Rudolf Arnheim

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 organises 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...

For thirty-five years, Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of The Dynamics of Architectural Form, Film as Art, Toward a Psychology of Art, and Art and Visual Perception, asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, and that...