Answer the following question: What key details about rudolf arnheim can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: rudolf arnheim -lrb- july 15 , 1904 -- june 9 , 2007 -rrb- was a german-born author , art and film theorist , and perceptual psychologist . he learned gestalt psychology from studying under max wertheimer and wolfgang kohler at the university of berlin and applied it to art . his magnum opus was his book '' art and visual perception : a psychology of the creative eye '' -lrb- 1954 -rrb- . other major books by arnheim have included '' visual thinking '' -lrb- 1969 -rrb- , and '' the power of the center : a study of composition in the visual arts '' -lrb- 1982 -rrb- . '' art and visual perception '' was revised , enlarged and published as a new version in 1974 , and it has been translated into fourteen languages . he lived in germany , italy , england , and america . most notably , arnheim taught at sarah lawrence college , harvard university , and the university of michigan . he has greatly influenced art history and psychology in america . although '' art and visual perception : a psychology of the creative eye '' took fifteen months to complete , arnheim stated that he felt that he essentially wrote it in one long sitting . in '' art and visual perception '' , arnheim tries to use science to better understand art , still keeping in mind the important aspects of personal bias , intuition , and expression . in his later book '' visual thinking '' -lrb- 1969 -rrb- , arnheim challenges the differences between thinking versus perceiving and intellect versus intuition . in it arnheim critiques the assumption that language goes before perception and that words are the stepping stones of thinking . sensory knowledge , for arnheim , allows for the possibility of language , since the only access to reality we have is through our senses . visual perception is what allows us to have a true understanding of experience . arnehim also argues that perception is strongly identified with thinking , and that artistic expression is another way of reasoning . in his book titled '' the power of the center : a study of composition...
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- death place is ann arbor , michigan- caption is arnheim -rrb- speaking at the american federation of arts 48th annual -lrb- convention , 1957 apr 6 / eliot elisofon , photographer l . american federation of arts records , archives of american -rrb- art , smithsonian institution and greg bateson -lrb- r- fields is film theorist , psychologist- death date is 9 june 2007- doctoral advisor is max wertheimer- academic advisors is wolfgang kohler kurt lewin- birth date is 15 july 1904- name is rudolf arnheim- nationality is german-american- image is arnhein and bateson.jpg- birth place is berlin , german empire- alma mater is university of berlin