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By Rudolf Arnheim. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974, x + 503 pp., $15.00; paperback, $5.95.
This volume presents a largely rewritten, expanded version of the popular book of the same title originally published in 1954. The 1974 version, also available in soft cover, contains some new illustrations of works of art. Their quality seems adequate, but one wishes for more examples. Arnheim supplements these illustrations with a myriad of little line drawings that picture the experiments in the psychology of perception which he cites throughout the book.
Arnheim has divided his text into ten lucidly written divisions, which cover the visual properties of a work of art: balance, shape,