New Essays on the Psychology of Art

Rudolf Arnheim

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780520055537
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520907843
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly. In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• Part I
• CONCERNING AN ADORATION
• Part II
• THE DOUBLE-EDGED MIND: INTUITION AND THE INTELLECT
• MAX WERTHEIMER AND GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY
• THE OTHER GUSTAV THEODOR FECHNER
• WILHELM WORRINGER ON ABSTRACTION AND EMPATHY
• Part III
• UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
• A STRICTURE ON SPACE AND TIME
• LANGUAGE, IMAGE, AND CONCRETE POETRY
• ON THE NATURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
• SPLENDOR AND MISERY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER
• THE TOOLS OF ART - OLD AND NEW
• Part IV
• A PLEA FOR VISUAL THINKING
• NOTES ON THE IMAGERY OF DANTE’S PURGATORIO
• INVERTED PERSPECTIVE AND THE AXIOM OF REALISM
• BRUNELLESCHI’S PEEPSHOW
• THE PERCEPTION OF MAPS
• Part V
• THE RATIONALIZATION OF COLOR
• THE RATIONALIZATION OF COLOR
• Part VI
• THE PERCEPTUAL CHALLENGE IN ART EDUCATION
• VICTOR LOWENFELD AND TACTILITY
• ART AS THERAPY
• Part VII
• STYLE AS A GESTALT PROBLEM
• ON DUPLICATION
• ON THE LATE STYLE
• Part VIII
• OBJECTIVE PERCEPTS, OBJECTIVE VALUES
• INDEX