Rudolf Arnheim
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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
- Articles
- "On the Nature of Photography", Critical Inquiry, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Sep., 1974): 149-161.
- 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
