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The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition Paperback / softback - 2009

by Rudolf Arnheim

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Paperback / softback. New. Using many examples, this title considers the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
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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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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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