To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays
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To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays
University of California Press, c1992
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- : paper
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Includes bibliographies and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780520074583
Description
The author has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable and lasting. But recent attitudes and theories about art, he argues, are undermining the foundation of artistic achievement itself. The essays collected in this volume amount to a call to arms. Included is a series of miniature monographs on a variety of great works of art. In other essays, the author uncovers enlightening perspectives in the art of the blind, in architectural space, in caricature and in the work of psychotics and autistic children. He also presents new scientific aspects on the psychology of art and widens our range of vision by connecting art with language, literature and religion.
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: paper ISBN 9780520074590
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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 call to arms. Included is a series of miniature monographs on a variety of great works of art. In other essays, Arnheim uncovers enlightening perspectives in the art of the blind, in architectural space, in caricature, and in the work of psychotics and autistic children. He also presents new scientific aspects on the psychology of art and widens our range of vision by connecting art with language, literature, and religion.
Table of 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 Healer
V
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
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