A 50-year-old classic, which was revised and expanded in 1974. Explains how the eye organizes visual material according to psychological laws.

The tension between two systems for understanding and picturing space, the concentric and the Cartesian, is regarded by the author as the key to composition in

"This is a book about what the science of perception can tell us about visualization. There is a gold mine of information about how we see to be found in more t

This survey looks at art from 1940 to the present as an accumulation of unique contributions by individual artists. These are examined in depth together with ch