Pensieri sull'educazione artistica

Abstract

In his Thoughts on Art Education, Arnheim describes the perceptual, cognitive and affective components underlying art production and enjoyment. He contends that those components dictate the lines along which educational and teaching plans are to be designed. Since the components underlying art involve the workings of mind as a whole and art is an outstanding instance of the class of structural problems, which arise in many fields, such plans may be intended as curricula that cut across many disciplines. Therefore, Art education gives a meaningful contribution to personality development. This new edition of Arnheim's work the result of an entirely new translation and is characterized by a critical apparatus that provides with the reference to other Arnheim's work and reconstructs the cultural and scientific framework of Arnheim's claims.