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Rudolf Arnheim
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Rudolf Arnheim

American psychologist
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  • Gestalt psychology

    …the perceptual investigations undertaken by Rudolf Arnheim and Hans Wallach in the United States.

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    …the perceptual investigations undertaken by Rudolf Arnheim and Hans Wallach in the United States.

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  • Edmund Burke
    aesthetics
    / Form

    , Rudolf Arnheim’s Art and Visual Perception (1954), which explores the significance for our understanding of pictures of such well-known Gestalt phenomena as the figure-ground relationship and the perception of completed wholes.

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    , Rudolf Arnheim’s Art and Visual Perception (1954), which explores the significance for our understanding of pictures of such well-known Gestalt phenomena as the figure-ground relationship and the perception of completed wholes.

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