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The Split and the Structure - Twenty-Eight Essays (Paperback, New)
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Rudolf Arnheim's great forte is his ability to illuminate the
perceptual processes that go into the making and reception of
artworks - painting, sculpture, architecture, and film. Over the
years, his pioneering mode of 'reading' art from a unique
scientific/philosophic perspective has garnered him an established
and devoted audience. That audience will take pleasure in Arnheim's
most recent collection of essays, one that covers a range of topics
and includes titles such as "Outer Space and Inner Space," "What Is
an Aesthetic Fact?," "As I Saw Children's Art," "Two Ways of Being
Human," "Consciousness - an Island of Images," and "From Chaos to
Wholeness." The notion of structure is Arnheim's guide in these
explorations. Most of the essays examine the nature of structure
affirmatively: how it comes about, its incentives and objectives,
its celebration of perfection. He is interested in how artists
grope for structure to shape powerful, enlightening images, and how
a scientist's search for truth is a search for structure. Writing
with enviable clarity, even when deploying complex arguments,
Arnheim makes it easy and exciting to follow him as he thinks.
America is not abundantly supplied with 'public intellectuals' such
as Rudolf Arnheim - to have his writings with us is cause for
celebration. 'The word 'structure' appears for good reason in the
title of this collection...Structure seems to be needed as an
arbiter wherever this civilization of ours is split by selfish
interests and fighting for either/or decisions. The essays want to
speak with the voice of reason, because they want to show how the
parts require the whole.'
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