Visual Thinking
by Rudolf Arnheim
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Author: Rudolf ArnheimEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-16
ISBN: 0520242262
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: More Poetry Than Truth
Summary: 1 Stars
The author's writing style is as if he simply sat down and typed this out after having built up years of experience. Why it fails is because he seems to be writing strictly from memory without checking his notes along the way. The writing isn't so much inaccurate as it just meanders from topic to topic. It has a nice flow, but keeps leaving me feeling like, even when his points are good, one doesn't follow from what preceded it. Also, many of the points he makes don't seem to matter.
A lot of the book is hopelessly dated. The terminology is dated and he doesn't reflect knowledge and awareness of contemporary science or politics or much of anything else. It might work well for people studying period pieces, but as for gaining a good understanding of "visual thinking," by contemporary standards, forget it!
Summary of Visual Thinking
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 the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading. An indis-pensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts.General Books
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