Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, The New Version, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged

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Very important reading for any serious artist

Good as Creative Writing At Best

Excellent- but not light- reading

Good theory book for designers and artists

the true gateway to perception

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, The New Version, Second edition, Revised and Enlarged
Rudolf Arnheim
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Paperback

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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 Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.

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Very important reading for any serious artist.......2007-06-27

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
by Rudolf Arnheim is a work of great importance to any serious artist. In a nutshell, Arnheim tells us in language only we (artists) could fully appreciate and comprehend how our brains and our eyes do so naturally what they do. This is a left brained guy who is fascinated by we right brained people. This work and his other masterpiece "Visual Thinking" make me delighted to be a visual thinker.

Good as Creative Writing At Best.......2007-05-16

The problem that I have with this book is that there are so many other books out there that are so much better in terms of describing art concepts and perception concepts. This book has had its run. Cognitive science, studies of synesthesia, the amygdala, you name it, have progressed far beyond the scope of this book. As an artist of thirty years who is on the lookout for books to consider as textbooks for my teaching, I would feel like a sadist making my students read this.

Arnheim meanders in a sort of stream-of-consciousness style of writing. He may be entertaining to some, but I find him hard to follow and his points moot. Also, the illustrations are, beyond the artwork reproductions, pretty bad. A much better illustrator could have been hired to do them.

I find his choice of topics to convey his message to have such a personal feel that I am left thinking that it wouldn't be the best choice for art students to learn either their craft or history. And, as I said earlier, there are much better books available. If this book at least touched on contemporary scientific theories, I could give it more stars. As is, it probably ran out of steam thirty years ago.

Excellent- but not light- reading.......2005-10-15

This book was purchased as a text for school- I don't believe I would be inclined to pick this one off the shelves and purchase it on my own for pleasure after some perusing. Arnheim has revised this text over the years, and this final version (according to him in the preface) is much more comprehensive. I would say that is a classic understatement by him. His style reminds me more of undergraduate psychology texts I had read. Dense, not a lot of pictures, and a lot of philosophical concepts on the nature of art. However, like all things, rewarding in the depth available in the text. Just don't try to digest it all at once, and don't be distracted. If you are, you'll find yourself reading passages over again.

Good theory book for designers and artists.......2005-08-31

It articulates the way we look at art both obvious and non-obvious. Related to optical illusions and our vision. Good book for both artists and non-artists to analyse why we see things the way we do without going too much into the neurological part of it.

the true gateway to perception.......2005-03-03

If you want to learn why the things are seen in the way they are seen or want to control the look of your objects to build up as a concrete whole, wheter in a motion picture, a paint, a photograph, architecture, sculpture, a graphical design piece, or more strictly speaking, if you ever asked yourself what is a line, what makes a triangle more interesting than a square, why my piece of design looks unstable, and start to think that you are going mad :) this is the decisive beginning for understanding visual communication... Must be bought together with "The Power of the Center" for a complete look... Basics of geometry, psychology, philosophy and history of art are required...

Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. The New Version

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Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. The New Version
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Binding: Hardcover
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This short history of American Education examines our nation's peculiar faith in the power of its schools to solve its various social problems. Focusing mainly on the post Civil War period, it shows how our early public school system was used in an attempt to solve such problems as racial inequality, urban decay, unemployment, and nationalization. It also shows how later problems such as overpopulation, AIDS, environmental pollution, drugs, automobile safety, crime, and cultural discrimination have been put on the school's agenda. In a new concluding section, Professor Perkinson discusses why the public schools have not solved these broad social problems and why they should not be expected to do so.

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The Need to Move Beyond Public Schools.......2001-05-16

Professor Perkinson's fourth edition, proves to be a most provactive and disturbing chronicle of the events that lead to the development of the current public school system. He begins with the early colonists and compulsory education. He believes the development of the printing press, which influenced religous and political movements, also gave rise to the need the educate the masses. In distinguishing what education was to the upper classes and the lower classes, he shows how the concept of sociaization lies at the heart of an enduring faith of the notion that education was the panacea to cure the social ills throughout its inception. He carries the reader through the periods of Anti-Catholic sentiments and the post Civil War period which gave rise to private schools. He chronicles the varieties of other schools that existed: those run by women in their homes, called "dame" schools, to the academies and "monitorial" schools and the schools set up to teach teachers, called the "normal schools. He introduces the reader to Horace Mann, Booker T. Washington, Pestalozzi, the "Hebartians", Sizer, and John Dewey, to name a few, who influenced the modern theories of education. He chroncles the pligt of immigrants into urban life, their changing values and alienation as well as the plight of the newly freed Southern slaves and how the need for public schools developed to meets their growing numbers, while, he does state they necessarily met their needs. He details the influences of the rural migration into the cities, coupled with industrialization, making the cities unlivable for the middle and upper classes who took flight from the urban areas. He reveals the influences of the racist South in devloping separate schools to prevent an intermingling of the races in the schools, even after legislation was passed to enforce segregated schools. The books takes the reader through the development of the graded school system we know today. It is a compact book filled with a multitude of dates, facts and personalities which are sometimes hard to follow, but which cover the gamet of the social, politcal and psychological forces which helped to shape the public school system. He covers the time when the vast wealth of the Rockefellers, Vanderbuilts, and Carnegie, were made and their influences on the idea that "America was a land of opportunity." He takes you through the "success books" from Ben Franklin to P.T Barnum and the "McGuffy" Book series. There is so much more contained than can be written in this brief review. He concludes that "the only way Americans can shore up their lagging faith in education is to move beyond the public schools." It is a "must read" for educators and anyone interested the knowing the history of public education and the impossible tasks expected of educators and the system as it exists today.

Great Educational Tool, but not weekend reading!.......2000-04-26

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Examining the effects of hypothetical modifications in permitting procedures and river conditions on whitewater boating behavior.: An article from: Journal of Leisure Research

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Examining the effects of hypothetical modifications in permitting procedures and river conditions on whitewater boating behavior.: An article from: Journal of Leisure Research
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From the supplier: The present study supplements Canadian consumer expenditure survey data with unique time use data to analyze family life cycle decisions regarding allocation of full income to market purchased consumer goods, home production, and leisure time. Results confirm that young children's presence causes families to increase their shares of full income allocated to home production and to decrease the shares of full income allocated to leisure. As a share of full income, expenditures for market goods steadily increase while expenditures for women's home production diminish as children age. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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Roger L. Moore
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Author: Roger L. Moore
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