
The Split and the Structure
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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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I
The Split and the Structure
Learning by What Is Around
Two Sources of Cognition
The Two Authenticities of the Photographic Media
II
The Way of the Crafts
Outer Space and Inner Space
Inside and Outside in Architecture
Drawings in Design
Notes on Religious Architecture
III
What Is an Aesthetic Fact?
From Pleasure to Contemplation
The Symbolism of Light
A God's Perfection
Gauguin's Homage to Honesty
The Echo of the Mountain
Deus ex Machina
A Maverick in Art History
IV
Learning by Looking and Thinking
As I Saw Children's Art
Artistry in Retardation
A System of Expressive Movement
V
The Face and the Mind behind It
Consciousness-an Island of Images
Form as Creation
From Chaos to Wholeness
VI
Two Ways of Being Human
Lemonade and the Perceiving Mind
The Dynamics of Problem Solving
Acknowledgments
Index
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