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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Main Author: Arnheim, Rudolf
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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