Table of Contents

Foreword

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

About the Author

Rudolf Arnheim is Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University. For many years he was a member of the Psychology Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, and he spent his last ten academic years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he now lives.