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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.]]> 1691419 2 1688273 19 12 1991 To the Rescue of Art: Twenty-Six Essays total:3|5:0|4:1|3:1|2:0|1:1| 3 8 4 1 166493 3.80 158 25 34165292 1205659 1691419 0520074580 9780520074583 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1691419.To_the_Rescue_of_Art_Twenty_Six_Essays 2.67 3 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.
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