To the Rescue of Art (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-07459-0
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnheim, Rudolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.