Un viajero llega a una ciudad sin nombre. La gente no lleva ropa sino máscaras. Duerme de día. Trabaja de noche. Vive en casas transparentes para dar ejemplo de vida modélica a los mirones. Se desplaza en medios de locomoción...
En el presente libro, obra provocativa y con múltiples derivaciones, Arnheim afirma que todo pensamiento (y no sólo el pensamiento relacionado con el arte u otras experiencias visuales) es de naturaleza fundamentalmente perceptual, y que...
One of the world's leading film theorists, Rudolf Arnheim has been well known to readers of English since the publication of his classic Film as Art in 1957. This is the first English translation of another of his important books, Kritiken und AufsÃ...
"This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics; between the tendency toward greater organization and...
For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim, author of The Dynamics of Architectural Form, Film as Art, Toward a Psychology of Art, and Art...
"In "The Ego and the Id "Freud argued that a cogent thought process, to say nothing of conscious intellectual work, could not exist amidst the unruliness of visual experience. Over the last half century in a sequence of landmark books, Rudolf...
"More than half a century since its initial publication, this deceptively compact book remains among the most incisive analyses of the formal and perceptual dynamics of cinema. No one who cares about film can afford to remain ignorant of its insights...
Die Kunst der Bildanalyse ist so alt wie die Kunst selbst. Arnheims Anleitung zum Sehen ist aber immer noch so jung wie bei ihrem ersten Erscheinen 1954. Kaum ein Buch hat Generationen von Lesern so einfach und so gründlich in die Welt der Kunst eing...
The provocative title of this new collection of essays was chosen by Rudolf Arnheim for good reason. He has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable, and lasting. But...