Description: "In "The Ego and the Id "Freud argued that a cogent thought process, to say nothing of conscious intellectual work, could not exist amidst the unruliness of visual experience. Over the last half century in a sequence of landmark books, Rudolf Arnheim has not only shown us how wrong that is, he has parsed the grammar of form with uncanny acuity and taught us how to read it."--Jonathan Fineberg, author of "Art since 1940: Strategies of Being "
Review Quotes: "The clear, direct, flexible writing is powerfully reinforced by the numerous illustrations . . . not one of which is superfluous."-- "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"