Archives of American Art
Rudolf Arnheim papers
Arnheim, Rudolf
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9.6 Linear feet
1919-1998
The papers of art historian, educator, writer and psychologist Rudolf Arnheim measure 9.6 linear feet and date from 1919 to 1998. The papers document his career in New York, Michigan, and abroad through biographical material, correspondence, writings, lectures, diaries, printed material, and sound recordings.
The collection is mostly in English and German. Some materials are in Italian and French.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged as 5 series.
- Series 1: Biographical Material, 1939-1991 (Box 1; 0.3 linear feet)
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1940-1998 (Boxes 1-5; 4.4 linear feet)
- Series 3: Writings and Lectures, 1930-1989 (Boxes 5-8; 2.7 linear feet)
- Series 4: Diaries, 1919-1987 (Boxes 8-9; 1.0 linear feet)
- Series 5: Printed Material, 1928-circa 1990 (Boxes 9-11; 1.2 linear feet)
Biographical / Historical
Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was a writer, educator, art historian and psychologist who was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States where he primarily worked in New York and Massachusetts.
Rudolf Arnheim was born in Berlin, Germany on July 15, 1904. He received his doctorate in psychology from the University of Berlin in 1928. Arnheim worked as a film critic and editor for several magazines and journals after graduation. During this time, he gathered information which would be compiled in his book Film as Art (1932). When the Nazis came into power in 1933, Arnheim moved to Rome where he worked at the Institute for the Educational Film for six years, then moved to London in 1939 and worked as a translator for the British Broadcasting Company.
Arnheim immigrated to the United States in 1940. In 1943, he became a psychology professor at Sarah Lawrence College where he continued to teach until 1968. He also taught at the New School for Social Research during this time. From 1959 to 1960, he was a Fulbright lecturer at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo, Japan. After Sarah Lawrence College, Arnheim became a Professor of Psychology of Art at Harvard University, where he stayed until 1974 when he moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife Mary. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan from 1974 to roughly 1984.
Among his many publications are Art and Visual Perception, Toward a Psychology of Art, Visual Thinking, Entropy and Art, Picasso's Guernica, and The Power of Center. Arnheim died in Ann Arbor in 2007.
Conditions Governing Access
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Use of archival audiovisual recordings and electronic records with no duplicate access copies requires advance notice.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Rudolf Arnheim papers were donated to the Archives of American Art in several installments between 1974 to 1998 by Rudolf Arnheim. Arnheim also loaned material for microfilming in 1986.
Preferred Citation
Rudolf Arnheim papers, 1919-1998. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Processing Information
The collection was processed and a finding aid prepared by Rihoko Ueno in 2018. Additional finding aid description of the sound recordings was completed by Kirsi Ritosalmi-Kisner in 2024.
Related Materials
Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Rudolf Arnheim conducted by Robert F. Brown, May 16, 1972. Additional papers on Rudolf Arnheim related to psychology are available at the Archives of the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio.
Scope and Contents
The papers of art historian, educator, writer and psychologist Rudolf Arnheim measure 9.6 linear feet and date from 1919 to 1998. The papers documents his career in New York, Michigan, and abroad through biographical material, correspondence, writings, lectures, diaries, printed material, and sound recordings.
Biographical material includes a bibliography, biographical sketches, contracts and agreements, sound cassettes of interviews, and other miscellaneous material.
Correspondence is with colleagues, editors, publishers, and universities on various subjects. The bulk of the correspondence is arranged by subject such as architects, art historians, dance, and film. There is correspondence with Harvard University, University of Michigan, Museum of Modern Art, and New School of Social Research, as well as various individuals such as Josef Albers, Gyorgy Kepes, and Alice Sheldon.
Writings and lectures include book reviews, articles, lecture drafts and notes, sound recordings of lectures, manuscripts, and copies of published articles.
Arnheim's diaries date from 1919 to 1987 and discuss his early life as a student in Germany and career as an educator and lecturer. Some diaries include draft writings.
Printed material includes lecture announcements, reviews, clippings, programs, brochures, assorted material from Sarah Lawrence College, and two instructional sound cassettes.
Separated Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reel 3767) including correspondence with German publishers and editors, 1959-1982; Dumont Buchverlag, 1963-1980; Carl Hanser Varlag, 1974-1981; Helmut Diederich, 1974-1981; Franz Rudolf Knubel, 1971-1981; Werner Korbs, 1976-1982; Jurgen Weber, 1972-1981; and others. The originals were returned to Rudolf Arnheim after microfilming and subsequently donated to the Schiller-Nationalmuseum Deutsches Literaturarchiv, Germany. This material is not described in the collection container inventory or the finding aid.
Existence and Location of Copies
Materials lent for microfilming are available on 35mm microfilm reel 3767 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan. Digital copies of some of the sound recordings are available in the Archives of American Art offices.
Art -- Study and teaching -- United States
Art--Study and teaching--Germany
Art historians -- Massachusetts
Art historians -- New York (State) -- New York
Authors -- Massachusetts
Educators -- Massachusetts
Educators -- New York (State) -- New York
Sound recordings
Interviews
Diaries
Albers, Josef
Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001
Sheldon, Alice Bradley, 1915-1987
Harvard University
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.)
Sarah Lawrence College
University of Michigan
Biographical Material
Series 1
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0.3 Linear feet
Box 1
1939-1991
Scope and Contents
Biographical material includes a bibliography and supplement to Rudolf Arnheim's writings, short biographical sketches, assorted contracts and agreements; 5 sound cassettes of interviews, all of Arnheim being interviewed except for one where he interviews artist Adja Yunkers; interview transcripts, a few travel itineraries and documents mostly related to Arnheim's trip to Japan in 1976, and other miscellaneous material.
Bibliography of Writings from 1928 to 1982
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1983
1
1
Bibliography Supplements
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1988-1991
1
2
Biographical Sketches
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1973-1979
1
3
Contracts and Agreements
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1939-1958
1
4
Interviews
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Interview with Adja Yunkers
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1 Sound cassette
1980 November 23
1
5
Interview with Adja Yunkers
Interview with Rrudolf Arnheim, English
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1 Sound cassette
1985 March 24
1
6
1
Interview with Rudolf Arnheim
Interview with Rudolf Arnheim, German
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1 Sound cassette
1985 March 24
1
6
2
Interview with Rudolf Arnheim
Interview with Rudolf Arnheim for Open Air radio series
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1 Sound cassette
1986 March 6
1
7
Interview with Rudolf Arnheim for Open Air radio series
Interview with Rudolf Arnheim on WUOM radio station
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1 Sound cassette
1987 March 22
1
8
Interview with Rudolf Arnheim on WUOM radio station
Interview Transcripts
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1972
1982
1
9
Sarah Lawrence College Faculty Show Photograph
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1953
1
10
Travel Itinerary and Documents
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1976
1
11
Correspondence
Series 2
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4.4 Linear feet
Boxes 1-5
1940-1998
Scope and Contents
This series consists of professional correspondence with colleagues, students, editors, publishers, universities, and art institutions on the subjects reflecting Rudolf Arnheim's diverse personal interests. The bulk of the correspondence falls under general categories created by Rudolf Arnheim: Architects, Art Historians/Critics, Dance, Film, Psychiatrists, Television, etc. Notable correspondents include Josef Albers, Gordon Allport, Joseph Campbell, Gyorgy Kepes, Hans Richter, Alice Sheldon, and B.F. Skinner, as well as American Society for Aesthetics, Harvard University, University of Michigan, Museum of Modern Art, and the New School of Social Research.
Arrangement
Correspondence is arranged in two different ways to reflect the original order. The chronological correspondence is at the beginning of the series. The second part of the correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order by subject or name, then chronological order thereafter. Individuals and institutions with especially voluminous correspondence often have their own folders. Otherwise individual names are integrated into the subject correspondence. Arnheim's subject headings and original order have been retained.
Undated Correspondence
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circa 1940-circa 1950
1
12
Chronological Correspondence
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1932-1939
1
13
Chronological Correspondence
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1940-1949
1
14-19
Chronological Correspondence
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1950-1955
1
20-25
Chronological Correspondence
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1956-1959
1
26-30
Chronological Correspondence
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1960-1962
1
31-36
Chronological Correspondence
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1963-1964
1
37-43
Chronological Correspondence
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1965-1967
1
44-50
Chronological Correspondence
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1968
1
51-54
Chronological Correspondence
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1969
1
55-60
Chronological Correspondence
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1970
1
61-64
Chronological Correspondence
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1971
1
65-69
Chronological Correspondence
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1972-1973
1
70-73
Chronological Correspondence
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1974-1977
1
74-77
Chronological Correspondence
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1977-1980
1
78-82
Chronological Correspondence
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1980-1984
2
1-6
Chronological Correspondence
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1984-1987
2
7-11
Chronological Correspondence
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1988-1989
2
12-18
Chronological Correspondence
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1990-1991
2
19-23
Aesthetics and Philosophy
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circa 1968-1978
2
24-26
Aesthetics and Philosophy
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1978-1987
2
27-29
Aesthetics and Philosophy
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1988-1997
2
30-32
American Federation of Arts
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circa 1964-1965
2
33
American Federation of Arts
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1967-1974
2
34
American Society for Aesthetics
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circa 1958-1980
2
35-37
American Society for Aesthetics
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1981-1985
2
38-40
American Society for Aesthetics
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1986-1995
2
41-42
Architects and Architecture
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1964-1977
2
43-46
Architects and Architecture
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1978-1988
2
47-50
Architects and Architecture
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1988-1998
2
51-53
Art Educators and Art Education
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1969-1977
2
54-57
Art Educators and Art Education
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1977-1983
2
58-61
Art Educators and Art Education
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1984-1990
2
62-65
Art Educators and Art Education
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1991-1997
2
66-68
Art Historians and Art Critics
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1946-1977
2
69-72
Art Historians and Art Critics
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1977-1980
2
73-76
Art Historians and Art Critics
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1981-1985
2
77-80
Art Historians and Art Critics
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1985-1989
2
81-84
Art Historians and Art Critics
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1989-1992
2
85-88
Art Historians and Art Critics
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1993-1997
2
89-93
Art Therapy and Art Therapists
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1970-1980
3
1-3
Art Therapy and Art Therapists
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1980-1985
3
4
Art Therapy and Art Therapists
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1985-1995
3
5-6
Artists
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1967-circa 1979
3
7-10
Artists
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circa 1980-1984
3
11-14
Artists
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1984-1987
3
15-18
Artists
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1987-1990
3
19-22
Artists
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1990-1997
3
23-27
A, Miscellaneous
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1976-1996
3
28
Behrens, Roy
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1991-1997
3
29-31
Boyers, Robert
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1971-1979
3
32
Brasseur, Lee
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1988-1994
3
33
British Journal of Aesthetics
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1991-1997
3
34
Burckhardt, Oliver
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1995-1997
3
35
B, Miscellaneous
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1990-1997
3
36
Critical Inquiry
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1977-1986
3
37-38
C, Miscellaneous
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1990-1995
3
39
Dance
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1946-1978
3
40
Dance
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1978-1996
3
41
Design Issues
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1993-1994
3
42
D, Miscellaneous
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1989-1994
3
43
Edgerton, Sam
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1974-1975
3
44
E, Miscellaneous
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1989-1997
3
45
Film
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1940-1971
3
46
Film
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1972-1981
3
47-49
Film
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1981-1991
3
50
Filmmakers
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1992-1995
3
51
F, Miscellaneous
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1990-1995
3
52
Gay, John and Marie
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1992-1997
3
53-54
Getty Center
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1987-1991
3
55
G, Miscellaneous
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1993-1997
3
56
Harvard University
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1960-1969
3
57-58
Harvard University
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1969-1974
3
59-61
Harvard University
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1974-1989
3
62-64
Harvard University
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1990-1997
3
65-66
Hatano, Kanji
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circa 1958-1977
3
67
Hatano, Kanji
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1978-1989
3
68-70
Hatano, Kanji
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1989-1995
3
71-72
Heath, Tom
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1972-1984
3
73-75
Heath, Tom
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1985-1992
3
76-78
Heath, Tom
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1992-1997
3
79-80
H, Miscellaneous
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1991-1997
3
81
Institute for the Humanities
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1989-1996
3
82
Japan Fulbright Trip
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circa 1959-1982
3
83-85
Journal of Aesthetic Education
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1992-1997
3
86
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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1994-1997
3
87
J-K, Miscellaneous
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1990-1996
3
88
Language and Culture Discussion Group
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1987-1997
3
89
Law Professors
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1996-1997
3
90
Lectures and Conferences
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1962-1972
3
91-93
Lectures and Conferences
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1972-1973
3
94-95
Lectures and Conferences
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1973-1976
4
1-5
Lectures and Conferences
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1976-1979
4
6-10
Lectures and Conferences
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1979-1981
4
11-15
Lectures and Conferences
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1981-1983
4
16-20
Lectures and Conferences
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1983-1985
4
21-25
Lectures and Conferences
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1985-1986
4
26-30
Lectures and Conferences
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1986
4
31-34
Lectures and Conferences
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1987-1990
4
35-39
Lectureships - Visiting
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1965-circa 1973
4
40
Lectureships - Visiting
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1974-1979
4
41-43
Leonardo
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circa 1972-1984
4
44-47
Leonardo
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1985-1990
4
48-51
Leonardo
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1990-1997
4
52-53
Letters of Recommendation
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1953-1964
4
54
Letters of Recommendation
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1965-1988
4
55
L, Miscellaneous
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1992-1993
4
56
Miller, Arthur L.
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1986-1997
4
57-58
Museum of Fine Arts - Boston
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circa 1982-1989
4
59-62
Museum of Modern Art
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1974-1985
4
63-65
Music and Musicians
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circa 1972-1979
4
66
Music and Musicians
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1980-1988
4
67-68
Music and Musicians
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1989-1991
4
69-70
Musicians and Musicologists
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1992-1997
4
71-72
M, Miscellaneous
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1984-1997
4
73
New School for Social Research
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1956-1962
4
74-76
New School for Social Research
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1963-1977
4
77-78
Nivola, Claire
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1992-1994
4
79-81
Nivola, Claire
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1995-1997
4
82-83
N, Miscellaneous
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1987-1997
4
84
O, Miscellaneous
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1988-1995
4
85
Pariser, David - Undated
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circa 1974-circa 1990
4
86
Pariser, David
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circa 1974-1983
4
87-89
Pariser, David
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1984-1990
4
90-91
Pariser, David
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1990-1997
4
92-93
Petheo, Bela
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1983-1991
4
94-95
Petheo, Bela
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1993-1997
4
96
Psychiatrists
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1970-1977
4
97
Publishers
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circa 1961-1979
4
98
Publishers
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1981-1983
4
99-102
Publishers
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1983-1985
4
103-106
Publishers
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1985-1987
5
1-4
Publishers
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1987-1988
5
5-8
Publishers
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1989-1992
5
9-10
P, Miscellaneous
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1993-1995
5
11
R, Miscellaneous
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1989-1996
5
12
Sarah Lawrence College - Undated
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circa 1950-circa 1986
5
13
Sarah Lawrence College
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circa 1950-1958
5
14-17
Sarah Lawrence College
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1958-1967
5
18-19
Sarah Lawrence College
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1967-1986
5
20-21
Schaefer-Simmern, Henry
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1945-1961
5
22
Schaefer-Simmern, Henry
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1962-1973
5
23
Schaefer-Simmern, Henry
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1973-1979
5
24-26
Shedd, Ben
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1992-1997
5
27
Sheldon, Alice
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1955-1967
5
28
Sheldon, Alice
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1967-1973
5
29-30
Sheldon, Alice
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1974-1985
5
31
Sowers, Robert
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circa 1959-1983
5
32
Sowers, Robert
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1983-1989
5
33-34
Stini, Stephen Grenier
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1984-1988
5
35-37
Stini, Stephen Grenier
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1993-1997
5
38-39
S, Miscellaneous
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1988-1997
5
40
Television
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1971-1981
5
41-43
T, Miscellaneous
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1989-1997
5
44
United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare
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1963-1968
5
45-46
University of California Press
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1954-1968
5
47
University of California Press
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1969-1978
5
48-51
University of California Press
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1978-1981
5
52-55
University of California Press
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1981-1984
5
56-59
University of California Press
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1984-1986
5
60-63
University of California Press
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1986-1989
5
64-68
University of California Press
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1990-1995
5
69-73
University of Michigan
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1974-1981
5
74-77
University of Michigan
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1981-1986
5
78-81
University of Michigan
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1987-1996
5
82-83
V, Miscellaneous
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1991-1993
5
84
Ward, John
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1978-1987
5
85-87
W, Miscellaneous
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1991-1995
5
88
Writings and Lectures
Series 3
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2.7 Linear feet
Boxes 5-8
1930-1989
Scope and Contents
Writings and lectures include book reviews written by Rudolf Arnheim, typescripts and handwritten drafts of articles, lecture drafts and notes, 7 sound tape reels and one sound cassette of Arnheim's lectures, manuscripts, and copies of published articles. Manuscripts include Art and Visual Perception, Art of Seeing, Autobiography of a Work of Art: Picasso's Guernica, Depth Effect of 2D Figures, Disorder and Entropy, Order and Art, Dynamics of Architectural Form, New Essays on the Psychology of Art, Photographing Michelangelo, and a work of fiction The World Upside Down (Verkehrte Welt).
Arrangement
Writings are grouped by type, such as articles, lectures, and manuscripts, then arranged chronologically thereafter. Undated writings and lectures were given approximate date ranges. Lecture notes and manuscripts are further arranged in alphabetical order by subject or title. The sound tape reels are grouped with the lectures.
Article Drafts
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circa 1958-circa 1970
5
89-90
Article Drafts
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circa 1958-circa 1970
5
91-92
Article Drafts
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circa 1958-circa 1970
5
93-95
Book Reviews by Rudolf Arnheim
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circa 1962-1974
5
96
Lecture Notes
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3 Dimensions of Space
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circa 1948-circa 1950
5
97-98
3 Dimensions of Space
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circa 1949-1950
5
99-100
3 Dimensions of Space
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1950-1958
5
101
3 Dimensions of Space
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circa 1952
5
102
3 Dimensions of Space
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circa 1954-circa 1964
5
103
3 Dimensions of Space
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circa 1958
5
104-105
Architecture
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circa 1977-circa 1980
6
1-4
Architecture
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circa 1977-circa 1980
6
5-8
Architecture
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circa 1977-circa 1980
6
9-11
Art
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circa 1943-circa 1949
6
12-16
Art
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1947-1953
6
17-21
Art
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1954-1955
6
22-25
Art
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1956-1960
6
26-30
Art
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1962-1966
6
31-35
Art
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1967-1976
6
36-39
Art
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1977-1984
6
40-45
Art
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1984-1989
6
46-50
Art Development and Education
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1951-1955
6
51-54
Art Development and Education
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1955-1965
6
55-57
Art Development and Education
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1969-1975
6
58-61
Art Development and Education
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1976-1979
6
62-63
Art Motivation
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circa 1948-1955
6
64-68
Art Motivation
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1955-1961
6
69-72
Art Perception
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1950-1961
6
73-75
Art Perception
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1968-1980
6
76-80
Communication
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1947-1954
6
81-82
Communication
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1955-1962
6
83-85
Composition
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1982-1984
6
86-87
Composition
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1984-1987
6
88-91
Literature
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1947-1954
6
92-95
Modern Art
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circa 1948-circa 1961
6
96-99
Music - Undated
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circa 1946-circa 1981
6
100
Music
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1946-1954
6
101-103
Music
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1961-1981
6
104
Psychology of Art
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circa 1974-circa 1984
6
105-113
Seminars
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1970-1979
6
114-115
Lecture Recordings
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"A Glance at the Speculations" - Matchette Foundation Lecture Series
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1 Sound tape reel
1961
6
116
"In the Footsteps of a Creator" - Matchette Foundation Lecture Series
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1 Sound tape reel
1961
6
117
"Picasso Lecture"
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1 Sound tape reel
circa 1962
7
1
"What is Art for?" - Sound Seminars in Cincinnati, Ohio
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1 Sound tape reel
circa 1963
7
2
"What is Art for?" - Cooper Union Forum
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1 Sound tape reel
1963
7
3
"Arnheim before Film Guild - San Francisco State College"
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1 Sound tape reel
1965
7
4
"Art in Education" - Philadelphia Conference
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1 Sound tape reel
1967
7
5
"Visual Thinking" - University of Houston, Clear Lake
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1 Sound cassette
1980
7
6
Manuscripts
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Art and Visual Perception Chapters 1-5
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circa 1974
7
7-11
Art and Visual Perception Chapters 6-10
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circa 1974
7
12-16
Art and Visual Perception Notes
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circa 1974
7
17
The Art of Seeing
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circa 1964-1967
7
18
The Autobiography of a Work of Art: Picasso's Guernica
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1961
7
19-20
The Depth Effect of 2-D Figures
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1943
7
21
The Disorder of Entropy and the Order of Art
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circa 1970
7
22
The Dynamics of Architectural Form Introduction
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circa 1977
7
23
The Dynamics of Architectural Form Chapters 1-4
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circa 1977
7
24-27
The Dynamics of Architectural Form Chapters 5-8
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circa 1977
7
28-31
New Essays on the Psychology of Art
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circa 1986
7
32
New Essays on the Psychology of Art
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circa 1986
8
1-3
Photographing Michelangelo
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circa 1960-circa 1975
8
4
The World Upside Down
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1940
8
5-8
Published Articles
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circa 1938-1949
8
9
Published Articles
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1952-1962
8
10
Published Articles
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1963-1974
8
11-13
Miscellaneous
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1966-1979
8
14
Diaries
Series 4
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1 Linear foot
Boxes 8-9
1919-1987
Scope and Contents
The numerous diaries in this series, written in German and English, start from 1919 and extend until 1987. The diaries discuss Rudolf Arnheim's early life as a student in Germany, and contains personal reflections, poetry, as well as his interest in psychology, film and art. The later diaries also deal with Arnheim's career as an educator and lecturer and also contain drafts of writings on psychology, music, and art.
Diary
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1919-1922
8
15
Diary
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1934-1938
8
16
Diaries
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1942-1947
8
17
Diaries
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1948-1950
8
18
Diaries
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1951-1952
8
19
Diaries
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1952-1954
8
20
Diary
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1955-1957
8
21
Diaries
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1958
8
22
Diaries
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1958-1959
8
23
Diaries
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1959-1960
8
24
Diary
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1959-1961
8
25
Diary
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1960-1963
8
26
Diary
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1961-1965
9
1
Diary
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1963-1965
9
2
Diaries
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1966-1969
9
3
Diary
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1969-1971
9
4
Diary
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1971-1975
9
5
Diary
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1975-1982
9
6
Diary
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1981-1987
9
7
Printed Material
Series 5
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1.2 Linear feet
Boxes 9-11
1928-circa 1990
Scope and Contents
Printed material includes announcements for Rudolf Arnheim's lectures, reviews of his books, clippings, programs, brochures, assorted material from Sarah Lawrence College, and two instructional sound cassettes.
Book Announcements and Notices
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1954-1972
9
8
Book Announcements and Notices
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1973-1982
9
9
Book Announcements and Notices
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1986-1988
9
10
Book Reviews
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Art and Visual Perception
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circa 1954-circa 1978
9
11-12
The Dynamics of Architectural Form
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1978-1981
9
13
Entropy and Art
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1970-1977
9
14
Film as Art
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1958-1977
9
15
Picasso's Guernica: The Genesis of a Painting
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1962-1966
9
16
Picasso's Guernica: The Genesis of a Painting
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1964-1979
9
17
The Power of Center
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1982-1983
9
18
Toward of a Psychology of Art
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1966-1969
9
19
Visual Thinking
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1969-1971
9
20-21
Visual Thinking
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1972-1973
9
22
Miscellaneous Book Reviews
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1966-1984
9
23
Clippings - Undated
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circa 1928-circa 1989
9
24
Clippings
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1931-1946
9
25
Clippings
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1950-1959
9
26
Clippings
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1960-1969
9
27-28
Clippings
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1970-1979
9
29-30
Clippings
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1980-1989
9
31-32
Lecture and Symposium Announcements and Programs
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circa 1955-circa 1980
9
33
Sarah Lawrence College Printed Material
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1945-1985
9
37
Scrapbook of Reviews of Arnheim's Books
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1928-1932
9
38
Scrapbook of Programs and Pamphlets (Disbound)
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1949-1966
9
39
Scrapbook of Programs and Pamphlets (Disbound)
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1966-1971
9
40-41
Scrapbook of Programs and Pamphlets (Disbound)
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1971-1979
9
42
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Press Releases and Event Programs
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circa 1951-circa 1978
9
43-44
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Press Releases and Event Programs
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circa 1951-circa 1978
10
1-6
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Press Releases and Event Programs
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1974-1979
10
7-8
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Press Releases and Event Programs
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1978-1989
10
9-13
Miscellaneous Pamphlets, Press Releases, and Event Programs
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1985-1989
11
1
Asian Language Recording
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1 Sound cassette
circa 1980-circa 1990
11
2
Albert Bregman "Auditory Organization"
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1 Sound cassette
1983
11
3