The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays

by Rudolf Arnheim

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520204786
• ISBN13: 9780520204782
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Bridging the gap between the arts and science

This is the first book I've read by Arnheim, but surely not the last. These 28 clearly written non-technical essays are a delight to read and contemplate. Arnheim's wide-ranging intellect covers a lot of ground, from painting, photography and literature to science and philosophy. But this is erudition with a light touch, and the author knows how to balance abstraction with concrete analysis, inviting us to use all our senses to experience the parts and the whole.