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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.
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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 243
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
19 December 1991
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520074590
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
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.
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
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