To the Rescue of Art: Twenty-Six Essays

Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper Textual illustrations. Psychology of Art Univ. of California Press Berkeley (1992) orig.cloth 23x15cm, x,248 pp 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.