Arnheim, Rudolf.

Visual thinking / Rudolf Arnheim. - 35th anniversary printing. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997. - xi, 345 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-338) and index.

Early stirrings -- The intelligence of perception -- Two and two together -- The past in the present -- The images of thought -- Concepts take shape -- Pictures, symbols, and signs -- What abstraction is not -- What abstraction is -- With feet on the ground -- Thinking with pure shapes -- Words in their place -- Art and thought -- Models for theory -- Vision in education.

"This book is an attempt to proceed from earlier studies of art to a broader concern with visual perception as a cognitive activity ..."--Pref.

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Visual perception.
Art--Philosophy.

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