Arte e percezione visiva. Nuova versione

For anyone pursuing art as a lifetime adventure/endeavor, this is your art bible. This book was pivotal in opening my mind to a multifaceted way of looking at visual organization, composition and development. It gave me a hunger to create that still fuels me today. Rudolf Arnheim is often overlooked Leggi tutto

Everyone who reads this book in its entirety is guaranteed to wind up appreciating (and even 'understanding') abstract modernist art- I know I did. Contrary to what someone said here I would say this stuff does sink in- mainly because Arnheim managed to present his observations clearly, and illustra Leggi tutto

Very similar to Visual Thinking, but a bit broader and contends with sociological & cultural considerations within the history of Art and science. Not quite as condensed, as Visual Thinking is essays, but a much deeper and more interesting book overall.

I was lucky enough to have Prof. Arnheim at University of Michigan the year after his revised edition of this book came out. It was a life-changer for me. I had no idea that 25 years later I would become a docent at the art museum. Seeing, is a creative act... one we require and associate with under Leggi tutto

I’m not going to sugarcoat it. This is a textbook slog. But so worth it. As a non-artist (trained in the sciences), this opened my eyes to the many things that are surely fundamental to practicing artists as regards composition. And I see the value of formalism in art, particularly in its teaching a Leggi tutto

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A perennial favorite!

First thing you got to know about this book is that's a college textbook, so it's thick, dense, deep and specially hard, not in a bad sense, it's just that some paragraphs contain so much information that you have to read them again a few times before feeling you actually got what the author was try Leggi tutto

Relentlessly, fastidiously and with great precision Arnheim shows how visual art works, the intricate rules of the interplay of the machine of our perception and the physical object we (or others) call work of art. Apart from the obvious, Arnheim also shows that all those words art critics seem to us Leggi tutto

This book required the double effort from me, since English is not my native language, but it help me build all my creative thinking and visual creativity from scratch in order to be able to "save" it in mind. At the end of the semester we took an exam on this book. 100/100