Rudolf Arnheim

Rudolf Arnheim. (Marie Gay, photographer) Sarah Lawrence College ArchivesBronxville, NY
http://pages.slc.edu/~psychology/biographies/arnheim/ARNHEIM-5.jpg

Arnheim, Rudolf. The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in Visual Arts.
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~ipederse/Arnheimcentre.htm

"the copies of the optic images projected on the retinas, generated in our nervous system, may be understood as processes, and so do their equivalents on consciousness, i.e. on visual perception" (adapted)

"the old distinction between mass and energy has been replaced by a more unified a conception of the universe consisting of anything but models of energy; what we call thing or object is nothing more than an energetic field" (adapted)


Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking.
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~ipederse/Arnheim.htm


...and, for those interested, an article on time in the work of art:
van Gelder, Hilde. The Fall From Grace. Late Minimalism's Conception of the Intrinsic Time of the Artwork-as-Matter.
http://www.cipa.ulg.ac.be/pdf/van%20gelder.pdf