The Genesis of a Painting

Picasso's Guernica
2. Revised Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-520-25007-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 275 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Rudolf Arnheim explores the creative process through the sketches executed by Picasso for his mural Guernica. The drawings and paintings shown herein, as well as the photographs of the stages of the final painting, represent the complete visual record of the creative stages of a major work of art.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnheim, Rudolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I NOTES ON CREATIVITY
II THE PAINTING
III STEPS TOWARD GUERNICA
IV CONCLUSIONS

NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolf Arnheim (1904—2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. He was author of many books, including Art and Visual Perception, Film as Art, The Power of the Center, and Visual Thinking.