Author: Arnheim, Rudolf
Title: To the Rescue of Art: Twenty-Six Essays
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x,248 pp. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: 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 & 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 & 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 & Costs; What is Gestalt Psychology? The Two Faces of Gestalt Theory; Beyond the Double Truth; Art as Religion; In the Company of the Century.

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