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1	Visual Thinking more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.10! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye more books like this by 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 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 $3.99! new only from $17.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Film as Art more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim 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 $11.15! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Dynamics of Architectural Form more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim 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 $3.06! new only from $25.27! \| first editions \| SVS
5	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 Gestalt theory and the psychology of visual perception form the basis for an analysis of art and its basic elements. see all copies from $3.23! new only from $5.48!
6	Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim Presents an interpretation of the expression of art and the relationship between this psychology and the art form. Bibliogs. see all copies from $3.44! new only from $16.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, the New Version more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim Using a wealth of examples, Arnheim considers the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.75! \| SVS
8	Entropy and Art more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim 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 $2.95! new only from $13.89! \| SVS
9	To the Rescue of Art: Twenty-Six Essays more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim 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 $2.18! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Picture This: Perception and Composition more books like this by Molly Garrett Bang, Rudolf Arnheim (Foreword by) 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 $3.74! signed copies \| first editions
11	Thoughts on Art Education more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim This series supports scholarship in the field of art education and disseminates ideas about the theory and practice of discipline-based art education. see all copies from $27.97!
12 view cover	The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim, Rudolf Arneheim 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 $3.83! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	New Essays on the Psychology of Art more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim Examines the impact of psychology on how art is perceived and discusses photography, Dante, forgery, and color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.68! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim, Leslie Van Duzer (Editor), Kent Kleinman (Editor) Rudolf Arnheim is one of this century's most influential thinkers in the visual arts, and perhaps the most lucid and accessible writer on the arts today. From his now-classic book on film theory to his definitive texts on visual perception, from his seminal treatment of Picasso's "Guernica" to his primary research on the psychology of the creative ... see all copies from $3.83! new only from $3.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Genesis of a Painting: Picasso's Guernica more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim Rudolf Arnheim explores the creative process through the sketches executed by Picasso for his mural "Guernica. "The drawings and paintings shown herein, as well as the photographs of the stages of the final painting, represent the complete visual record of the creative stages of a major work of art. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Parables of Sun Light more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim 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 $4.20! new only from $17.68! \| first editions \| SVS
17	The Dynamics of Architectural Form: Based on the 1975 Mary Duke Biddle Lectures at the Cooper Union more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim see all copies from $12.00! first editions
18 view cover	Simon Dinnerstein: Painting and Drawing more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim, Robert L McGrath, John Russell This lavishly produced volume showcases an important American realist painter, featuring work from 1967 through 1999. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.98! \| first editions
19	Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim see all copies from $6.00! first editions \| SVS
20	Creative Painting and Drawing more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim (Designer), Anthony Toney see all copies from $1.99! SVS
21	Julian Stanczak: Decades of Light more books like this by Harry Rand (Designed by), Robert J. Bertholf (Designed by), Rudolf Arnheim 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 $24.75! new only from $24.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Color Harmonies more books like this by Augusto Garau, Nicola Bruno (Translator), Rudolf Arnheim (Foreword by) 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 $9.81! new only from $23.73!
23	Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim see all copies from $2.57! first editions
24	The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts more books like this by Rudolf Arnheim see all copies from $5.50!
25	Young Children's Sculpture and Drawing: A Study in Representational Development more books like this by Claire Golomb, Rudolf Arnheim see all copies from $16.14! first editions

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