Rudolf Arnheim was an influential art and film theorist who applied the principles of Gestalt psychology to the visual arts. His work explored how humans perceive visual information and how these processes shape artistic creation and aesthetic appreciation. Arnheim's approach emphasized the interconnectedness of perceptual psychology and the creative eye. His writings have significantly impacted art history and psychology, offering readers a deeper understanding of the visual world.
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.
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.
Explores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture.
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.
Views the process of artistic creation in light of the conflict between man's quest for order and increasing universal disorder
