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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.

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Author:   Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780520074590

ISBN 10:   0520074599
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   19 December 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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Rudolf Arnheim taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years and was the first Professor of the Psychology of Art at Harvard. He taught at the University of Michigan after his retirement and is the author of ten other books, all published by the University of California Press.

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