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The visual arts as human experience
- Title
- The visual arts as human experience [by] Donald L. Weismann.
- Author
- Weismann, Donald L.
- Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1970]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 313 pages illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- How to look at and understand art.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 311-313.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The visual arts and language -- Total configuration -- Three kinds of seeing -- The visual elements -- The visual elements and expression -- Expression: general and specific -- Monotony, harmony, contrast, and discord -- Two ways to unity -- Balance: symmetry and asymmetry -- Visual forces and balance -- Cohesion, tension and closure -- Porportion -- Space and the illusion of space -- Illusions of shallow space -- Illusions of cubical space -- Illusions of ambiguous space -- Perception and conception -- Form and content -- The creative process: a summary of its nature.
- ISBN
- 0139423672
- 9780139423673
- 0139423753
- 9780139423758
- LCCN
- 74090765
- OCLC
- ocm00065216
- 65216
- SCSB-148320
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library