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

"Arnheim was a distinguished psychologist, philosopher and critic whose work explored the cognitive basis of art-how we interpret it and, by extension, the world." Cabinet

"Uncommonly persuasive, eloquent, and useful." The Times Educational Supplement

"A worthy companion to Art and Visual Perception, and the two books together form one of the outstanding contributions of this century to the psychology of art." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism