Edited Rudolf Modley (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Bound with gray cloth over boards, dark blue lettering on spine. Light rubbing at crown and foot of spine. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Printed in B&W. Title page dated 1945. Copyright page dated 1945. 173 pages. Ex-Library; stamped on title page and rear free endpaper, sticker on spine previously removed. A very good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. II ed. della raccolta (I ed.: 1965 (?). A Theory of Pictorial Perception by James J. Gibson is reprinted from Audio-visual Communication Review, I:1, Winter, 1954 - The Painter's Handwriting by J. P. Hodin is reprinted from The Journal of Aesthetiscs and Art Criticism, VII:3, March, 1949). Vision + Value Series. Testo in inglese. VIII grande/ (6)+282/ crat./ sovraccoperta in carta liscia con grafica in b/malva/salvia/n e con titoli in nero. Illustrazioni in b/n nel testo e f.t. Stato buono (usura della sovraccoperta, in particolare ai margini - sovraccoperta, fogli di guardia e pagine brunite e con qualche piccola fioritura). Contents: Lawrence K. Frank: The World as a Communication Network-Signs, Images and Symbols - Heinz Von Foerster; From Stimulus to Symbol: The Economy of Biological Computation - Rudolf Arnheim; Image and Thought - S. Giedion; Symbolic Expression in Prehistory and in the First High Civilizations - James J. Gibson; A Theory of Pictorial Perception - Rudolf Modley; Graphic Symbols for World-Wide Communication - Henry Dreyfuss; Case Study: Symbols for Industrial Use - Abraham H. Maslow; Isomorphic Interrelationships between Knower and Known - Charles Morris and Frank Sciadini; Paintings, Ways to Live, and Values - J. P. Hodin; The Painter's Handwriting - Werner Schmalenbach; The Problem of Reality in Mid-Century Painting - Ad Reinhardt; Art in Art is Art as Art - Robert Osborn; The Hangover - Saul Bass; Movement, Film, Communication - Edmund Carpenter; Image Making in Arctic Art - Paul Riesman; The Eskimo Discovery of Man's Place in the Universe - John E. Burchard; The City as Symbol - Ernesto N. Rogers; The Image: The Architect's Inalienable Vision - P. A. Michelis; Form in Architecture: Imitation and Abstraction - Ludwig von Bertalanffy; The Tree of Knowledge - Biographical Notes on the Autors.