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.
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.
