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 Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954). He lived in Germany, Italy, England, and the United States.

Works

Books

• Toward a Psychology of Art, University of California Press, 1949; 1966. (English)

• Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, University of California Press, 1954; exp. & rev. ed., 1974, 508 pp. (English)
  • Sztuka i percepcja wzrokowa, trans. Jolanta Mach, 1978. (Polish)
  • Arta şi percepţia vizuală, trans. Florin Ionescu, intro Victor Ernest Masek, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1979; 2nd ed as Arta şi percepţia vizuală. O psihologie a văzului creator, Iaşi: Polirom, 2012, 504 p, ARG. (Romanian)
  • Arte y percepción visual, trans. María Luisa Balseiro, 1979; 2002. (Spanish)
  • Arte e percepção visual, trans. Ivonne Terezinha de Faria, 1980; 2005. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Vizuelno mišljenje. Jedinstvo slike i pojma, trans. Vojin Stojić, 1985. (Serbian)
  • Iskusstvo i vizualnoe vospriyatie, trans. V.N. Samokhin, 2000. (Russian)

• Film als Kunst, Berlin: Rowohlt, 1932. (German)
  • Film as Art, University of California Press, 1957, 230 pp. (English)
  • Le cinema est un art, trans. Francoise Pinel, Paris: L'Arche, 1989. (French)

• Picasso's Guernica, University of California Press, 1962; 1974. (English)

• Visual Thinking, University of California Press, 1969. (English)
  • Vizuelno mišljenje: jedinstvo slike i pojma, Belgrade: Unverzitet umetnosti u Beogradu, 1985. (Serbian)
  • El pensamiento visual, Barcelona: Paidós, 1986. (Spanish)

• Radio: An Art of Sound, trans. Margaret Ludwig and Herbert Read, London: Faber and Faber, 1936; New York: Arno Press, 1971, 287 pp. (English)

• Entropy and Art: Essay on Disorder and Order, University of California Press, 1971, 64 pp; 2010. (English)

• The Dynamics of Architectural Form, University of California Press, 1977. (English)

• The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, rev. ed., 1988, 2009.
  • Forţa centrului vizual. Un studiu al compoziţiei în artele vizuale, Bucharest: Meridiane, 1991; trans. Luminiţa Ciocan, Iaşi: Polirom, 2012, ARG. Excerpts (Romanian)

• To the Rescue of Art: Twenty-Six Essays, University of California Press, 1992. (English)

Selected articles

• "On the Nature of Photography", Critical Inquiry 1:1. (Sep 1974), pp 149-161. (English)
• "The Coming and Going of Images", in MediaArtHistories, ed. Oliver Grau, MIT Press, 2007, pp 15-17. (English)

Literature

• Ian Verstegen, Arnheim, Gestalt and Art: A Psychological Theory, Vienna: Springer, 2005. (English)

Links

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