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 Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954). He lived in Germany, Italy, England, and the United States.
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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 si perceptia vizuala, trans. Florin Ionescu, 1979. (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)
- 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)
- 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)