Overview
- A complete compendium of Rudolf Arnheim’s view on the psychology of art
- An exhaustive extension of up-to-date gestalt principles to all of Arnheim’s views
- A contemporary defense of the gestalt worldview and scientific theory
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Arnheim, 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 fundamental issues of the importance of psychological discussion of the arts, the status of gestalt psychology, the various sense modalities and media, and developmental issues. By proceeding in a direction from general to specific and then proceeding through dynamic processes as they unfold in time (creativity, development, etc.), the book discovers an unappreciated unity to Arnheim’s thinking. Not content to simply summarize Arnheim’s theory, however, Arnheim, Art, and Gestalt goes on to enrich (and occasionally question) Arnheim’s findings with the contemporary results of gestalt-theoretical research from around the world, but especially in Italy and Germany. The result is a workable overview of the psychology of art with bridges built to contemporary research, making Arnheim’s approach living and sustainable.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
The author is a professional art historian but began his career at the University of Michigan where he met Rudolf Arnheim. Subsequently he studied experimental psychology with Alain Gilchrist and then devoted himself to art history. Never losing his interest in psychology, he has cultiavated relationships with European psychologists whose works provide much of the impetus of this book. He has gone on to write several professional papers on the thinking of Arnheim, gestalt psychology, not to mention works on Rennaissance and Baroque painting and perspective theory, including editing a book on the art patronage of the Della Rovere Family, The Della Rovere: The Creation and Maintenance of a Noble Identity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arnheim, Gestalt and Art
Book Subtitle: A Psychological Theory
Authors: Ian Verstegen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-211-30762-1
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-211-28864-1Published: 10 October 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-3-211-30762-5Published: 24 May 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 188
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Neuropsychology, Cognitive Psychology, Arts, Developmental Psychology, Fine Arts, Psychotherapy