About the Author

Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. For many years he was a member of the Psychology Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and he spent his last ten academic years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he now lives.

Reviews

"The clear, direct, flexible writing is powerfully reinforced by the numerous illustrations . . . not one of which is superfluous."--"Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism