Table of contents:
Introduction
I. KEYNOTES
Form and the Consumer
Agenda for the Psychology of Art
II. THE SENSE OF SIGHT
Perceptual Abstraction and Art
The Gestalt Theory of Expression
Perceptual and Aesthetic Aspects of the Movement Response
Perceptual Analysis of a Rorschach Card
A Review of Proportion
III. THE VISIBLE WORLD
Order and Complexity in Landscape Design
The Myth of the Bleating Lamb
Art History and the Partial God
Accident and the Necessity of Art
Melancholy Unshaped
From Function to Expression
IV. SYMBOLS
Artistic Symbols--Freudian and Otherwise
Perceptual Analysis of a Symbol of Interaction
Four Analyses:
The Holes of Henry Moore
A Note on Monsters
Picasso's "Nightfishing at Antibes"
Concerning the Dance
Abstract Language and the Metaphor
V. GENERALITIES
On Inspiration
Contemplation and Creativity
Emotion and Feeling in Psychology and Art
The Robin and the Saint
VI. TO TEACHERS AND ARTISTS
What Kind of Psychology?
Is Modern Art Necessary?
The Form We Seek
Index
Introduction
I. KEYNOTES
Form and the Consumer
Agenda for the Psychology of Art
II. THE SENSE OF SIGHT
Perceptual Abstraction and Art
The Gestalt Theory of Expression
Perceptual and Aesthetic Aspects of the Movement Response
Perceptual Analysis of a Rorschach Card
A Review of Proportion
III. THE VISIBLE WORLD
Order and Complexity in Landscape Design
The Myth of the Bleating Lamb
Art History and the Partial God
Accident and the Necessity of Art
Melancholy Unshaped
From Function to Expression
IV. SYMBOLS
Artistic Symbols--Freudian and Otherwise
Perceptual Analysis of a Symbol of Interaction
Four Analyses:
The Holes of Henry Moore
A Note on Monsters
Picasso's "Nightfishing at Antibes"
Concerning the Dance
Abstract Language and the Metaphor
V. GENERALITIES
On Inspiration
Contemplation and Creativity
Emotion and Feeling in Psychology and Art
The Robin and the Saint
VI. TO TEACHERS AND ARTISTS
What Kind of Psychology?
Is Modern Art Necessary?
The Form We Seek
Index