To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays / Rudolf Arnheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arnheim, Rudolf, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Never before published essays by the widely admired psychologist of art. Arnheim spiritedly asserts art's fundamental achievements.Rudolf Arnheim has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable, and lasting. But recent fashionable attitudes and theories about art, he argues, are undermining the foundation of artistic achievement itself.The essays collected in this volume are written in his familiar, careful, and solidly supported manner, but under present circumstances they amount to a c

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; I; In Favor of Confrontation; Art Among the Objects; What Became of Abstraction?; II; The Reach of Reality in the Arts; Space as an Image of Time; The Reading of Images and the Images of Reading; Writers' Pointers; III; For Your Eyes Only: Seven Exercises in Art Appreciation; Picasso at Guernica; Sculpture: The Nature of a Medium; Negative Space in Architecture; Caricature: The Rationale of Deformation; Art History and Psychology; IV; The Melody of Motion; Perceptual Aspects of Art for the Blind; The Artistry of Psychotics; The Puzzle of Nadia's Drawings

The Artist as HealerV; But Is It Science?; Complementarity from the Outside; Interaction: Its Benefits and Costs; What Is Gestalt Psychology?; The Two Faces of Gestalt Theory; VI; Beyond the Double Truth; Art as Religion; In the Company of the Century; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-585-31790-9

9786612355851

0-520-91139-3

1-282-35585-6

OCLC:

45733783