RE:
> Does anyone out there know the name "Arnheim"? I took
> a class with him many years ago. As I recall he was a
> psychologist who was knowledgeable in the art world. Is he
> still around?
> Anyone know of Hans Richter? He was with the Bauhaus and we
> had many talks about art and science. Is he still around?
> Anyone know of the Tanager Gallery.? (birthplace of Abstract
> Expressionism). I showed there but can't remember the year.
> I have a doctorate in the sciences and did much brain research.
.....................
Am I right to think that memory studies were not part of that brain
research?
My memory is equally bad, and I never finished my Ph.D..
Just goes to show that you can pick up a bad memory without an expensive
education.
Ain't democracy wonderful?
.....................
Rudy Arnheim
was born in 1904, and far all I know he is still breathing. After he
left your class he went on to become the most influential bridge between
scientific speculation and art/architecture. His medium was Gestalt
psychology, wherein his studies in perception were relegated mostly to
visual responses. My copy of his, "Art and Visual Perception" was pub.in
1954, which came to us (in architectural pedagogy) as a wellspring of
valuable research. Even now I know of nothing which has had such an
impact upon the teaching of basic design, even including the Werkers
courses at the Bauhaus. (He has written much more since then.)
Hans Richter
was born in the late 1880s in Germany. As I recall, he taught painting
at the Bauhaus, and perhaps he held classes in film work, for it was
very soon after the Bauhaus opened that Richter is known to have shown a
famous DADA film, perhaps done with Eggeling? He would be 111 years old
now if he were alive. I don't know. He may be.
Unhappily, I know nothing of the Tanager Gallery. Can you tell us about
it? Was Pollock involved with it, or did he come later?
............
ANOTHER QUESTION, this one for you, Dr. Lanier:
To my mind, a monumental leap in cognition studies was made with the
discovery that the two cerebral hemispheres act independently of each
other (a notion popularly referred to as the Split Brain).
I have attributed this discovery to R.B. Sperry, from his work done in
the mid 60s, for which he received a Nobel Prize in 1981.
Would you mind discussing this with us? Do you agree with any of the
above, and do know much about Sperry's work? If you are influenced by
the separation of the brain (bilateral asymmetry) in your work, could
you theorize on its potential, especially its unrealized potential to
our understanding of ourselves?
Richard McBride, Assoc. Prof.
School of Architecture
University of Texas at Arlington
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