TY - BOOK AU - Arnheim,Rudolf TI - To the rescue of art: twenty-six essays SN - 9780520911390 AV - N7425 .A64 1992eb U1 - 700 20 PY - 1992/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Art KW - Philosophie KW - Critique d'art KW - ART KW - Reference KW - bisacsh KW - Performance KW - fast KW - Kunstbeschouwing KW - gtt KW - Kunstkritiek KW - Kunst KW - Psychologische aspecten KW - ram KW - Psychologie de l'art KW - Visual arts KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41719 ER -