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To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays

Title
To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays / Rudolf Arnheim.
Author
Arnheim, Rudolf.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.

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Description
x, 248 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- In Favor of Confrontation -- Art Among the Objects -- What Became of Abstraction? -- The Reach of Reality in the Arts -- Space as an Image of Time -- The Reading of Images and the Images of Reading -- Writers' Pointers -- 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 -- 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 -- But Is It Science? -- Complementarity from the Outside -- Interaction: Its Benefits and Costs -- What Is Gestalt Psychology? -- The Two Faces of Gestalt Theory -- Beyond the Double Truth -- Art as Religion -- In the Company of the Century -- Index.
Call Number
MA 92-7810
ISBN
  • 0520074580 (cloth)
  • 0520074599 (paper)
LCCN
91009038
OCLC
  • 23177867
  • NYPG92-B36381
Author
Arnheim, Rudolf.
Title
To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays / Rudolf Arnheim.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
MA 92-7810
JME 00-356
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