Rudolf Arnheim Books

Explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture.

Picasso's preliminary sketches analyzed in artistic and psychological terms trace the protean character of the famous mural

Based on the assumption that art is subject to psychology, accessible to understanding, and needed for any comprehensive survey of mental functioning, this book offers psychological findings range from experiments in the perception of shape or observations on the art work of children to broad deliberations on nature of images or of inspiration.

Since its publication fifty years ago, this work has established itself as a classic. It casts the visual process in psychological terms and describes the creative way one's eye organizes visual material according to specific psychological premises. In 1974 this book was revised and expanded, and since then it has continued to burnish Rudolf Arnheim's reputation as a groundbreaking theoretician in the fields of art and psychology.

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of The Dynamics of Architectural Form, Film as Art, Toward a Psychology of Art, and Art and Visual Perception, asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading. An indispensable tool for students and for those interested in the arts.

Views the process of artistic creation in light of the conflict between man's quest for order and increasing universal disorder

Rudolf Arnheim untersucht die Prinzipien der Kompositionsschemata in Malerei, Bildhauerei und Architektur. Er identifiziert zentrale Prinzipien wie das zentrische und exzentrische System und zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele, dass diese formalen Bedingungen auf grundlegende menschliche Erfahrungen verweisen.

This is a book of standards, a theory of film. The greater part of it is an adaptation of "Film als Kunst, " first published in 1932 in the original German and in English by Faber and Faber in 1933 - an edition long out of print but still in demand because it raises fundamental questions that the intervening years have by no means answered.