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Rudolf Arnheim: Revealing Vision by Rudolf Arnheim 9780472108596
Booksplease Price: £72.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472108596Author Rudolf ArnheimFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint The University of Michigan... -
Visual Thinking by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520242265
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.46For 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... -
Arte y Percepcion Visual by Rudolf Arnheim
Booksplease Price: £39.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788420678740Author Rudolf ArnheimFormat PaperbackImprint Alianza (Buenos Aires, AR)Publisher Alianza... -
New Essays on the Psychology of Art by Rudolf Arnheim
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Thousands 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... -
Film Essays and Criticism by Rudolf Arnheim 9780299152642
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56This 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... -
Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order by Rudolf Arnheim
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £17.81This 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 -... -
Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520266018
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.06From the Introduction: The papers collected in this book are based on the assumption that art, as any other activity of the mind, is subject to psychology, accessible to understanding, and needed for... -
The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520204782
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Rudolf 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... -
The Dynamics of Architectural Form, 30th Anniversary Edition by Rudolf Arnheim
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Rudolf 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... -
Film as Art, 50th Anniversary Printing by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520248373
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21In 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... -
To the Rescue of Art: Twenty-Six Essays by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520074590
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Never before published essays by the widely admired psychologist of art. Arnheim spiritedly asserts art's fundamental achievements. Rudolf Arnheim has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic... -
The Genesis of a Painting: Picasso's <i>Guernica</i> by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520250079
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.14Rudolf 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... -
Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520065369
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84For 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)... -
Art and Visual Perception, Second Edition: A Psychology of the Creative Eye by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520243835
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.28Since 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... -
The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition by Rudolf Arnheim 9780520261266
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Rudolf 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... -
Arnheim, Gestalt and Media: An Ontological Theory by Ian Verstegen 9783030029692
Booksplease Price: £46.28This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim's theory of media. Combining both Arnheim's well-known writings on film and radio with his later work on the psychology of... -
Arnheim for Film and Media Studies by Scott Higgins
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a pioneering figure in film studies, best known for his landmark book on silent cinema Film as Art. He ultimately became more famous as a scholar in the fields of art... -
Discovering Child Art: Essays on Childhood, Primitivism, and Modernism by Jonathan Fineberg 9780691086828
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £64.44This book brings together thirteen distinguished critics and scholars to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented influence on the evolution of modern art. It shows that... -
The Gestalts of Mind and Text by Chanita Goodblatt 9781032268316
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Presents a unique Gestalt-oriented approach to the study of poetic metaphor. Focuses on the integral relationship among art, psychology and Rudolf Arnheim as a Gestalt psychologist.Book... -
Aesthetic Spaces: The Place of Art in Film by Brigitte Peucker 9780810139060
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Films provide valuable spaces for aesthetic experimentation and analysis, for cinema's openness to other media has always allowed it to expand its own. In Aesthetic Spaces, Brigitte Peucker shows... -
Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice by Murray Pomerance 9780813566283
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Today's film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they're just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist Andre Bazin. To... -
When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child by Jonathan Fineberg 9780520250437
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.58In his last and most overarching essay on the subject, Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of individuality in children's drawings and to recognize the child's creation of 'significant... -
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532295
Booksplease Price: £23.87"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of... -
The Shape of Content Ben Shahn 9780674302426
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £15.70"The clearest, most forceful statement on art by an artist of our time that I have read." -Frank Getlein, New RepublicAn illustrated guide to artistic creation from one of the twentieth century's... -
Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory by Ian Verstegen 9783211288641
Booksplease Price: £46.74Arnheim, Gestalt and Art is the first book-length discussion of the powerful thinking of the psychologist of art, Rudolf Arnheim. Written as a complete overview of Arnheim's thinking, it covers... -
The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.00"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."-E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books"This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with... -
Art and Expression: Studies in the Psychology of Art by Alberto Argenton
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Perception of expression distinguishes our cognitive activity in a pervasive, significant and peculiar way, and manifests itself paradigmatically in the vast world of artistic production.Art and... -
The Soap Opera Evolution: America's Enduring Romance with Daytime Drama by Marilyn J. Matelski 9780786472819
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59The first daytime dramas began as early as 1930, with Painted Dreams. Programmers soon discovered that housewives often controlled the purse strings, and soaps become an advertiser's gold mine... -
Color Harmonies by Augusto Garau 9780226281957
Booksplease Price: £91.97Because 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,... -
Color Harmonies by Augusto Garau 9780226281964
Booksplease Price: £33.37Because 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,... -
Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society by Ruth Richards 9781137557650
Booksplease Price: £101.44As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we... -
Film and Stereotype: A Challenge for Cinema and Theory by Jorg Schweinitz 9780231151498
Booksplease Price: £31.51Since the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliche, conventional imagery, and recurring narrative patterns of reduced complexity in cinema. Whether it's... -
Everyday Creativity and the Healthy Mind: Dynamic New Paths for Self and Society by Ruth Richards 9781349718405
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.75As human beings we all have creative potential, a quality essential to human development and a vital component to healthy and happy lives. However this may often remain stifled by the choices we... -
Gesture and Thought by David McNeill
Booksplease Price: £30.43David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants in both speaking and thinking. He posits that... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present by Eric Rentschler
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality by Siegfried Kracauer
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Siegfried Kracauer's classic study, originally published in 1960, explores the distinctive qualities of the cinematic medium. The book takes its place alongside works in classical film theory by such... -
The Use and Abuse of Cinema: German Legacies from the Weimar Era to the Present by Eric Rentschler 9780231073622
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £111.58Eric Rentschler's new book, The Use and Abuse of Cinema, takes readers on a series of enthralling excursions through the fraught history of German cinema, from the Weimar and Nazi eras to the postwar... -
Beckett at 100: Revolving It All by Linda Ben-Zvi 9780195325478
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £59.88The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading... -
Beckett at 100: Revolving It All by Linda Ben-Zvi 9780195325485
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.71The year 2006 marked the centenary of the birth of Nobel-Prize winning playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. To commemorate the occasion, this collection brings together twenty-three leading... -
How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration by Ellen Winner 9780190863357
Booksplease Price: £38.28There is no end of talk and of wondering about 'art' and 'the arts.' This book examines a number of questions about the arts (broadly defined to include all of the arts). Some of these questions come...