Ebook: Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: a Psychological Theory

Discusses the powerful thinking of the psychologist of art, Rudolf Arnheim. This book 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.;Why Arnheim? Why Gestalt?; Arnheim and Different Approaches to the Psychology of Art; Expression, Symbolism and Visual Thinking; The Senses, Perceptual Objects and Their Dynamics; The Notorious Gestalt Brain Model; The Dynamics of Pictorial, Sculptural and Architectural Form; The Dynamics of Pantomimic Form; The Dynamics of Musical Form; The Dynamics of Poetic Form; Art in Comparative Perspective: Children, Adults, Cultures; The Dynamics of Microgenetic Artistic Development; Individual Artistic Development; The Dynamics of Differential and Psychopathological Artistic Form.