Rudolf Arnheim
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Rudolf Arnheim (born July 15, 1904) is a German author and theorist of Gestalt perception. His major work is Art and Visual Perception, published in 1954. He suggests ten areas of concern: Balance, Shape, Form, Growth, Space, Light, Color, Movement, Tension, and Expression.
Arnheim has lived and worked in Germany (1904-1933), Italy (1933-1938), London (1939-1940), New York (1941-1968), Cambridge, Massachusetts, (1968-1974) and Ann Arbor, Michigan, (1974-today).
Publications
- 1928: Experimentell-psychologische Untersuchungen zum Ausdrucksproblem. Psychologische Forschung, 11, 2-132.
- 1932: Film als Kunst. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt. Neuausgaben: 1974, 1979, 2002
- 1943: Gestalt and art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2, 71-5.
- 1949/1966: The gestalt theory of expression. Toward a Psychology of Art. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- 1954/1974: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- 1972/1996: Anschauliches Denken. Zur Einheit von Bild und Begriff. Erstausgabe 1972, nun Köln: DuMont Taschenbuch 1996.
- 1977: The Dynamics of Architectural Form. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
- 1977: Kritiken und Aufsätze zum Film. (Hrsg.: Helmut H. Diederichs) München: Hanser.
- 1979: Radio als Hörkunst. München: Hanser. Neuausgabe: 2001 (Suhrkamp)
- 2004: Die Seele in der Silberschicht. (Hrsg.: Helmut H. Diederichs) Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
External links
- BIOGRAPHY: RUDOLF ARNHEIM by Igor Shteyrenberg (http://pages.slc.edu/~psychology/biographies/arnheim/)
- The Thought, Life and Influence of Rudolf Arnheim (http://astro.temple.edu/~iversteg/Gestalt.html)
- Rudolf-Arnheim-Forum (http://www.soziales.fh-dortmund.de/diederichs/arnheim.htm)