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Rudolf Arnheim
The Power of the Center
A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, The New Version
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978-0-520-06242-9
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256 pages,
April 1988, Available worldwide
Categories: Art; Art Theory

Using a wealth of examples, Arnheim considers the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. For many years he was a member of the Psychology Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and he spent his last ten academic years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he now lives.