Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born author, art and film theorist, and perceptual psychologist.

His major books are Visual Thinking (1969), The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982), and his most known, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954). Revised, enlarged and published as a new version in 1974, it has been translated into fourteen languages. He lived in Germany, Italy, England, and the United States.

Literature

By Arnheim

• Toward a Psychology of Art, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1949; 1966
• Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954/1974
• Film als Kunst, Berlin, 1932.
  • Film as Art, University of California Press, 1957
• Picasso's Guernica, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962; 1974
• Visual Thinking, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969
• Radio: An Art of Sound, London: Faber and Faber, 1936, Arno Press, New York, 1971
• Entropy and Art: Essay on Disorder and Order, University of California Press, 1971
• The Dynamics of Architectural Form, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977
• "The Coming and Going of Images", in MediaArtHistories, ed. Oliver Grau, MIT Press, 2007, pp 15-17.

On Arnheim

• Ian Verstegen, Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory, Vienna: Springer, 2005

External links

• http://www.t-h-e-n-e-t.com/html/_film/pers/_pers_arnheim.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Arnheim
• http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/rudolf-arnheim-papers-8318