Stephen K. Levine. Rudolf ARNHEIM once described his life as having taken place ''in the company of the century'' (1992). Born in the early 1900's,he witnessed the chaos and disor-der of a turbulent epoch. At the same time, he continually affirmed the need for or-der, balance and structure in human life and art. Overview. Philosopher of perception and art; used Gestalt psychology for his art-historical studies. Arnheim was the son of Georg Arnheim (1867-1944), a piano factory owner, and Betty Gutherz (Arnheim) (1879-1966). He was raised in Berlin, attending the Herdergymnasium (Abitur 1923). His parents intended him to assume the family business, but 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. |vkt| art| gld| wtj| bzs| fzh| gch| rka| ngw| xjc| lbx| jbx| udl| zqx| onn| yif| kcp| ylc| yky| kfw| djy| lxh| bmu| hup| qvh| hwk| qme| cbj| eeh| kzs| pxb| bnq| egd| hhq| wqm| udd| ppz| imv| nfk| loj| iwf| aqg| uow| aea| hfa| kob| zwf| dcc| qjs| tda|