Round 3: Tossup 19

This theorist praised a child for quitting a sketch of a skyscraper before drawing its windows in an essay on “information theory” and “entropy.” This author’s magnum opus on film concludes with an essay on compositing sound, images, and other cinematic elements that riffs on Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s essay “Laocoön.” This theorist, who died at the age of 102 in 2007 in Ann Arbor after retiring as a professor at UMich, cited Maya Deren’s cutting style in a subsection on film editing from a book whose chapters include “Balance,” “Growth,” “Movement,” and “Dynamics.” Fear of retribution against his article comparing the mustaches of Chaplin and (*) Hitler led this theorist to emigrate to Rome in 1933. This author of Visual Thinking asserted that films must depart from reality to attain the title status in the book Film as Art. For 10 points, name this formalist film theorist and art historian who drew on Gestalt psychology in the 1954 book Art and Visual Perception. ■END■ (0[3])

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