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1	Visual Thinking more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist Groundbreaking when first published in 1969, this book is now of even greater relevance to make the reader aware of the need to educate the visual sense. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $15.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Film as Art more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film by Four Essays" and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now nearly fifty years after that re-edition, the book continues to occupy an important place in the literature of film. Arnheim's method, provocative in this age of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, the New Version, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist Gestalt theory and the psychology of visual perception form the basis for an analysis of art and its basic elements. see all copies from $3.09!
5	Entropy and Art more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics; between the tendency toward greater organization and the general trend of the material universe toward death and disorder. see all copies from $3.89! new only from $13.49! \| first editions
6	Picture This: Perception and Composition more books like this by Molly Bang, Rudolf Arnheim (Foreword by) add to wishlist A basic introduction to the principles of design using the story "Little Red Riding Hood" as a framework. Readers will learn how various shapes such as triangles or diagonal lines can be placed in a piece of artwork to reflect such emotions as fear or reassurance. Also explored is how the use of color affects the viewer. see all copies from $4.20! new only from $84.95! \| first editions
7	Creative Painting and Drawing more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim (Designer), Anthony Toney add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	The Dynamics of Architectural Form more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist The power of the visual effects exerted by architecture, in our own time and in the past, has been largely neglected in recent discussion, with its focus on practical utility and other economic and social factors. Such an account of the human needs met by architecture remains sadly incomplete unless the expressive visual qualities of buildings are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
9	The Genesis of a Painting: Picasso's Guernica more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist Rudolf Arnheim's classic study of the creation of one of the most significant works of art of our time is now available again. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $23.79! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist Presents an interpretation of the expression of art and the relationship between this psychology and the art form. Bibliogs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.47! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim, Rudolf Arneheim add to wishlist Rudolf Arnheim's great forte is his ability to illuminate the perceptual processes that go into the making and reception of artworks - painting, sculpture, architecture, and film. Over the years, his pioneering mode of 'reading' art from a unique scientific/philosophic perspective has garnered him an established and devoted audience. That audience ... see all copies from $2.75! new only from $3.97! \| SVS
12	Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim, Leslie Van Duzer (Editor), Kent Kleinman (Editor) add to wishlist Eminent contributors celebrate the distinguished career of art and film theorist Rudolf Arnheim see all copies from $3.92! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking "Art and Visual Perception" in 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary volumes celebrate the landmark anniversaries of his works in 2009. In "The Power of the Center", Arnheim uses a wealth of examples to consider the ... see all copies from $11.75! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
14 view cover	To the Rescue of Art: Twenty-Six Essays more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist The author has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable and lasting. But recent attitudes and theories about art, he argues, are undermining the foundation of artistic achievement itself. The essays collected in this volume amount to a call to arms. Included is ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $16.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Simon Dinnerstein: Painting and Drawing more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim, Simon Dinnerstein, John Russell add to wishlist This lavishly produced volume showcases an important American realist painter, featuring work from 1967 through 1999. see all copies from $2.41! new only from $9.98!
16 view cover	Color Harmonies more books like this by Augusto Garau, Nicola Bruno (Translator), Rudolf Arnheim (Foreword by) add to wishlist Because theories of visual perception have traditionally concentrated on form, artists have generally dealt with the problem of color through their own observation and intuition. In Color Harmonies, Augusto Garau systematically investigates the role of both color and form in visual perception and presents an original theory of the aesthetic ... see all copies from $6.51! new only from $25.42! \| first editions
17 view cover	Film Essays and Criticism more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim, Brenda Benthien (Translator) add to wishlist This is an English translation of Arnheim's "Kritiken und Aufsatze zum Film", which collects both film reviews and theoretical essays, most of them written between 1925 and 1940. Arnheim began writing about film in the 1920s for a satirical magazine, "Das Stachelschwein" and later became a film critic for "Die Weltbuhne". His most important ... see all copies from $7.90! new only from $14.78! \| first editions
18 view cover	Parables of Sun Light more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books - known and prized the world over - such as "Art and Visual Perception", ... see all copies from $3.82! new only from $34.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	New Essays on the Psychology of Art more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.04! new only from $28.77! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist see all copies from $4.40! first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, the New Version more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist The tension between two systems for understanding and picturing space, the concentric and the Cartesian, is regarded by the author as the key to composition in painting, sculpture and architecture. see all copies from $5.55! new only from $15.75!
22	The Dynamics of Architectural Form: Based on the 1975 Mary Duke Biddle Lectures at the Cooper Union more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! first editions
23	Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist see all copies from $5.25! first editions
24	Julian Stanczak: Decades of Light more books like this by Harry Rand (Designed by), Robert J. Bertholf (Designed by), Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist This volume contains essays by Rudolf Arnheim, Harry Rand & Robert Bertholf about the work of the American painter Julian Stanczak. Stanczak was a student of Albers, & has carried forward the process of geometric abstract painting far past the period of "op art." The painting is formed by a vibrant visionary process, & a master's technique. This ... see all copies from $26.25! new only from $48.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Young Children's Sculpture and Drawing: A Study in Representational Development more books like this by Claire Golomb, Rudolf Arnheim add to wishlist see all copies from $17.65! first editions

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