The Power of the Center

The Power of the Center

A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts

by Rudolf Arnheim

249 pages· 1983· ISBN 9780520050150
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The tension between two systems for understanding and picturing space, the concentric and the Cartesian, is regarded by the author as the key to composition in painting, sculpture and architecture

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