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. He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982), but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he was most widely known. Revised, enlarged and published as a New Version in 1974, it has been translated into 14 languages, and is very likely one of the most widely read and influential art books of the twentieth century.

Publications

• 1928: Experimentell-psychologische Untersuchungen zum Ausdrucksproblem. Psychologische Forschung, 11, 2-132.
• 1932: Film als Kunst. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt. Neuausgaben: 1974, 1979, 2002. ISBN 978-0520248373.
• 1943: Gestalt and art. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2, 71-5.
• 1949/1966: Toward a Psychology of Art. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520021617.
• 1954/1974: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520243835.
• 1962/1974: Picasso's Guernica. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520250079.
• 1969: Visual Thinking. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520242265.
• 1971: Entropy and Art. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520026179.
• 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. ISBN 9780520035515.
• 1977: Kritiken und Aufsätze zum Film. (Hrsg.: Helmut H. Diederichs) München: Hanser.
• 1979: Radio als Hörkunst. München: Hanser. Neuausgabe: 2001 (Suhrkamp). ISBN 9780405035708
• 1982/88: The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520062429.
• 1986: New Essays on the Psychology of Art. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520055544.
• 1989: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520065369.
• 1990: Thoughts on Art Education. Los Angeles: Getty Center for Education. ISBN 9780892361632.
• 1992: To the Rescue of Art. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520074590.
• 1996: The Split and the Structure. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520204782.
• 1997: Film Essays and Criticism. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299152642.
• 2004: Die Seele in der Silberschicht. (Hrsg.: Helmut H. Diederichs) Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.