Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J, 1984
Da: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
paperback. Condizione: Very Good. DETAILS: oblong PAPERBACK, very good used copy, cover curled at right edge and corners worn and rubbed, top outer corner of title page roughly clipped away to remove an ownership name. BEHRENS, ROY R. Design in the visual arts. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall, 1984, 1st printing number line ending in 1, iii, 136pp., . CONTENTS: Esthetics and anesthetics -- Color and context -- The key to color -- The mixing of pigments -- Value and intensity -- Color notation systems -- Successive contrast -- Simultaneous contrast -- Color interaction -- Color depth and temperature -- How accents work -- Color schemes -- The primacy of context -- Composition and Gestalt -- Composing and disposing -- Patternmaking and picture-making -- Part and whole relationships -- Gestalt and art -- Figure and ground -- The principle of similarity -- Proximity and contiguity grouping -- Pictures and patterns -- Balance and visual weight -- Broken continuity clues -- Compositional resemblances -- Problems of representation -- The relativity of realism -- Vision and invention -- The meaning of metaphor -- Creativity as metaphor -- Association and bisociation -- The logic of humor -- Creative taxonomy -- Creativity and madness -- The value of creativity -- Two-dimensional problems -- Three-dimensional problems -- On teaching design. 9780132019477 ISBN 0132019477.