To the rescue of art twenty-six essays - Arnheim, Rudolf (University of California Press, 1992)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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