To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays /
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. Bu...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1992]
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| 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 call to arms. Included is. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 248 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520911393 0585317909 9780520911390 9780585317908 |