To the Rescue of Art

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 IIn Favor of Confrontation Art Among the Objects What Became of Abstraction? IIThe Reach of Reality in the Arts Space as an Image of Time The Reading of Images and the Images of Reading Writers' Pointers IIIFor 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 IVThe Melody of Motion Perceptual Aspects of Art for the Blind The Artistry of Psychotics The Puzzle of Nadia's Drawings The Artist as Healer VBut Is It Science? Complementarity from the Outside Interaction: Its Benefits and Costs What Is Gestalt Psychology? The Two Faces of Gestalt Theory VIBeyond the Double Truth Art as Religion In the Company of the Century Index