Book description
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…
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1 author picked Visual Thinking as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book outlines how the visual field operates at a psychological level.
I am an architect and cannot believe that we don’t teach straight from this and other Arnheim books more often. If you want to know what is happening to you, why you get chills up your spine when looking at art, read this book.
Arnheim is a psychologist, not a designer, so he breaks art down from this perspective.
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