Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. x, 248 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Art

Contents

1. 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

1. MA 92-7810

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Arnheim, Rudolf.

Title

1. To the rescue of art : twenty-six essays / Rudolf Arnheim.

Imprint

1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 91009038

ISBN

1. 0520074580 (cloth)
2. 0520074599 (paper)

Research call number

1. MA 92-7810
2. JME 00-356