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Art, Design and Gestalt Theory
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 31, Number 4, August 1998
- pp. 299-303
- Article
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ABSRACT:
Gestalt psychology was founded in 1910 by three German psychologists, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. The author discusses gestalt theory’s influence on modern art and design, describes its resemblance to Japanese-inspired theories of aesthetics and finds evidence of a mutual, if limited, interest between the gestalt psychologists and certain artists.