The Power of the Center

What deternines the overall organization of visual form in works op painting, sculpture, and architecture? Artists have sometimes ventured practical rules of thumb, and mathmaticians have looked for formulas that would prescribe ideal spatial relations between shapes. This Companion to Rudolf Arnheim's classic, Art and Visual Perception, shows how compositional form makes sense only when it utilizes visual symbols of the life experience that makes art meaningful. Book jacket.

Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and the author of many books, including Art and Visual Perception, Film as Art, The Dynamics of Architectural Form, and Visual Thinking.