Arnheim, Gestalt and Media An Ontological Theory /

• Main Author: Verstegen, Ian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy,
• Subjects: Philosophy and social sciences.; Aesthetics.; Communication.; Architecture.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Media and Communication.; Architectural History and Theory.

This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim's theory of media. Combining both Arnheim's well-known writings on film and radio with his later work on the psychology of art, the author presents a coherent approach to the problem of the nature of a medium, space a...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Arnheim After the Post-Medium Condition
• Part I. Media Ontology
• Chapter 2. What is a Medium?
• Chapter 3. What All Media Share
• Chapter 4. Defining Difference in Media
• Chapter 5. The Two Elementary Classes of Aesthetic Objects: Spatial and Temporal Media
• Chapter 6. The Spatial and Temporal Modalities
• Chapter 7. The Ontology of the Individual Modalities
• Chapter 8. Medial Composites
• Chapter 9. Conclusion.