Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory.(Book review)

From: Journal of Phenomenological Psychology | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Verstegen, I. (2005). Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory. Vienna, Austria: Springer-Verlag, Vienna, vii + 188 pp., $49.95 (softcover).

Verstegen's book is "an attempt to bring into a single coherent statement" (p. v) the Gestalt psychologist Rudolf Arnheim's theory of the psychology of art. Arnheim's response to Verstegen's description of the project to him seems to have been an endorsement of it (pp. v-vi). The success in threading together the sections of Arnheim's corpus at the same time makes salient some issues of concern for those phenomenological ...

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