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by Rudolf Arnheim

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What determines the overall organization of visual form in the works of painting, sculpture, and architecture? Artists have sometimes ventured practical rules of thumb, and mathematicians have looked for formulas that would prescribe ideal spatial relations between shapes. This companion to Rudolf Arnheim's classic, Art and Visual Perception, shows how compositional form makes sense only when it utilizes visual symbols of the life experience that makes art meaningful.

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  • Title The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition
  • Author Rudolf Arnheim
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 20 Anv
  • Pages 250
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2009-10-19
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index
  • ISBN 9780520261266 / 0520261267
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Unassigned Title
  • Library of Congress subjects Composition (Art)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 701.8

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Rudolf Arnheim (1904--2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. He was author of many books, including Art and Visual Perception, Film as Art, and Visual Thinking.

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