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

Name: Power of the Center A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, 20th Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780520261266

ISBN-10: 0520261267

ISBN-13: 9780520261266

Edition: 20th 2009 (Anniversary)

Authors: Rudolf Arnheim, R. Arnheim

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Rudolf Arnheim has been known, since the publication of his groundbreaking Art and Visual Perceptionin 1974, as an authority on the psychological interpretation of the visual arts. Two anniversary volumes celebrate the landmark anniversaries of his works in 2009. InThe Power of the Center, Arnheim uses a wealth of examples to consider the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture.The Dynamics of Architectural Formexplores the unexpected perceptual consequences of architecture with Arnheim's customary clarity and precision.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction



Two Spatial Systems


A master key to composition


Centricity and eccentricity


Vectors and their targets


Interaction of the systems



Centers And Their Rivals


Geometric and dynamic


The pull of gravity


The visual center underneath


Varieties of weight


Sculpture and the ground


Matisse under pressure



The Viewer as a Center


Self-centered vision


Various positions in space


A slab in suspense


Seeing the world sideways


The viewer as an influence


Looking into depth



Limits And Frames


Enclosures spread energy


Tampering with the range


The functions of frames


Framed space not quite closed


Rectangular formats


Challenges to the middle


Perspective creates a center



Ton Do And Square


Floating shapes


Tondi stress the middle


The role of eccentricity


Disks inside


The oval


Squares balance the coordinates


Aibers's nests of squares


Mondrian overrides centricity


A square by Munch



Centers as hubs


Provimg Stability


Tensition through deviation


Dynamics of the human figuer


Saltimbanques and Guernica



Centers as Dividers


Bipolar composition


The necessary latch


Diagonals


Noli metengere



Volumes and nodes


Volumes and vectors interactiong


Kinds of nodes


Nodes of the body


Faces and hands


Singing man



Space in depth


Perceiving the third dimension


Objects behaving in space


Enclosures replacing frames


The added view of projection


Coctinuity of space


What perspective Contributes


Time in space


The symbolism of the frontal plane



Centers and grids in buildings


Grids prevail


Design in elevation


Design on the ground


Coping with full space


Composition in time


Are there exceptions?


A physical foundation


Composition carries meaning


Glossary


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index