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> From: Andreas Broeckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 13 June 2007 1:05:03 AM GMT+12:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [spectre] Rudolf Arnheim dies peacefully > > Margaret Nettinga (Arnheim's daughter) writes: > > Rudolf Arnheim, a pathbreaking psychologist of visual experience in > the arts, died at the age of 102 in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 9 > 2007. > His last > academic post was at the University of Michigan, where he was > Visiting Professor in the Departments of Art, History of > Art, and Psychology from 1974 to 1984. The previous American years of > his long academic career were spent at Sarah Lawrence College from > 1943 to 1968 and at Harvard in the Department of Visual and > Enviromental Studies from 1968 to 1974. > > Born in Berlin in 1904, where his father was a manufacturer > of pianos, > Rudof Arnheim took his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1928, > with a dissertation of the experimental psychology of visual > expression, and secundary studies in musicology and history of art. > At the time Arnheim was enrolled in Berlin University's Institute of > Psychology, it was the center of experimentation in Gestalt > Psychology, with Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang K*hler, and Kurt Lewin the > central authorities. > > Arnheim conducted some of the > earliest experiments in the application > of Gestalt theory in the perception of a work of art. Between 1928 and > his departure from Nazi Germany in 1933, he was on the editorial staff > of Die Weltb*hne, the influential weekly magazine then edited by Carl > von Ossietzky and suppressed with the advent of the Third Reich. It > was in this publication that Arnheim ventured into film criticism, a > medium that became central to his theories of vision. (...) > > read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Arnheim > > ______________________________________________ > SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe > Info, archive and help: > http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre > _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
