Arnheim, Gestalt and Media
An Ontological Theory
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Offers a powerful defense of media difference using a non-essential approach to ontology
Features an innovative marriage of Gestalt psychology and Austrian ontology
Presents an important theory of media developed by psychologist Rudolf Arnheim, a famous early critic and theorist of film and radio
About the Author:
Ian Verstegen is Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published on early modern and modern art history, art historiography, aesthetics and philosophy. He is the author of Arnheim, Gestalt and Art (also with Springer). His most recent book is Federico Barocco and the Oratorians.
See the publisher website: Springer
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