Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Gestalt theory and the psychology of visual perception form the basis for an analysis of art and its basic elements

If you like book Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

The Secret Lives of Color

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginger, the brown that changed the way battles were fought to the white that prote…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Art Spirit

In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert Henri. While it embodies the entire system of his teaching, with much technical advice and critical c…
Buy this book on Amazon
Concerning the Spiritual in Art

A pioneering work in the movement to free art from its traditional bonds to material reality, this book is one of the most important documents in the history of modern art. Written by the famous nonob…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Lives of the Artists

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Giorgio Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Shock of the New

A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-garde. More than 250 color photos.
Buy this book on Amazon
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

The amazing work of a tormented soul Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. He lived an unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost no appreciation—fin…
Buy this book on Amazon
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell

Buy this book on Amazon
Interaction of Color

Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color is a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this timeless book presents Alb…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Art Book

An A to Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times, it debunks art historical classifications by throwing together brilliant examples of all periods, schools, visions an…
Buy this book on Amazon
Art Forms in Nature

The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findin…
Buy this book on Amazon
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Artist Andrew Loomis writes this book for those who have graduated from the fundamentals of drawing and are ready to embark on their artistic careers. He coordinates all the basic facts gathering the …
Buy this book on Amazon
Drawing the Head and Hands

The illustrator Andrew Loomis (1892-1959) is revered amongst artists - including the great American painter Norman Rockwell and comics superstar Alex Ross - for his mastery of figure drawing and clean…
Buy this book on Amazon
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation

Buy this book on Amazon
Drawing from Memory

Caldecott Medalist Allen Say presents a stunning graphic novel chronicling his journey as an artist during WWII, when he apprenticed under Noro Shinpei, Japan’s premier cartoonist
DRAWING FROM MEMORY i…
Buy this book on Amazon
Anatomy for the Artist (Spiral Edition)

It’s the classic in its fielda reference work of unparalleled importance for all professionals and students of art. This superb art manual is the best guide available on a subject that has fascinated …
Buy this book on Amazon
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more for…
Buy this book on Amazon
Ways of Seeing

John Berger’s Classic Text on Art

Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series…
Buy this book on Amazon
Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

Illustrates outdoor sculptures created with a range of natural materials, including snow, ice, leaves, rock, clay, stones, feathers, and twigs
Buy this book on Amazon
The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation

A classic by a renowned Dutch artist that offers a way to rediscover the world and experience Zen through seeing and drawing. Drawn and handwritten by the author.

Seeing/Drawing is spiritual discipline…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachment

In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol—which, with the subtitle "(From A to B and Back Again)," is less a …
Buy this book on Amazon