Our Project
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This site has been constructed to recognize the role of perception and perceptual effects in contemporary art, to engage with the author Rudolf Arnheim, and understand the limitations and advantages of his work.
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We have inverted Arnheim's title, Art and Visual Perception, to become Visual Art and Perception, to reflect the relative values of contemporary art, favoring all of the senses and immersion. Put another way, such a move might allow for a "Postmodern Arnheim," the web address of this site.
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We encourage our readers within the artistic community to interact with this material to help us construct a comprehensive source for the conversation on Arnheim and his conceptual connections to Post-Modern art. Comments and contributions are greatly appreciated and will be slowly added and duly acknowledged.
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To learn more about the role of perception and perceptual qualities in post-1960s art, go to the Excursus, or to go directly to Arnheim's chapter subjects, click Chapters.
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“A question, then, might be how to reconnect with the visual, structural, and phenomenological analyses of the twentieth century without sacrificing the political and social dimensions of recent theory.”
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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Notes on Perceptual Thinking and its Possibilities Today." [1]
[1] Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, "Notes on Perceptual Thinking and its Possibilities Today," in The Book of Books (vol. 1/3 of the dOCUMENTA (13) (Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2012).