Rudolf Arnheim Books:
Toward A Psychology of Art, Collected Essays, University of California
Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California 1966; ISBN: 0-520-02161-4
Art and Visual Perception, A Psychology of the Creative Eye, The New
Version,1954, 1974, The University of California Press, Berkeley and Los
Angeles, California; ISBN: 0-520-02327-7;
The Power of the Center, A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California 1982;
ISBN 0-520-04426-6
mcbride3 wrote:
> 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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