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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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. <p