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In a discipline forever subject to ad hoc or opportunistic research, where the differences between descriptive, comparative, and intellectual analyses are increasingly blurred, W. McAllister Johnson offers these provocative, 'issues-oriented' essays, an effort to address the intellectual bases of art history in relation to everyday work. The essays attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice through common sense and a measure of realism that is sometimes humorous, sometimes brutal. Conversational in tone, the book is intended to stimulate reflection rather than serve as a reference book or manual. Through the constant interweaving of intellectual and art history with practical instructions that address concretely and in detail the realistic needs of students and writers, Johnson speaks to the field itself rather than to its externals. He deals with such different matters as the nature and evolution of the research process, university and public life, bibliography, and cataloguing. These essays discuss major questions that should arise in courses in bibliography, methodology, and historiography, once the survey courses are left behind. Art librarians have previously had little to offer between introductory works or manuals and specialized literature. Yet, beyond what interests one or what can be judged in the light of personal or professional experience, everyone needs a foil that goes beyond immediate needs and forces him or her to reassess method and attitudes. In this book Johnson offers just such an instrument.

Art --- Historiography. --- History --- art history --- Art - Historiography

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This ambitious volume provides a general introduction to the major approaches in this century to art theory and criticism, from the Expression Theory to Poststructuralism. For readers with little or no background, clearly written introductions are provided. The writings collected here are by leaders in each area such as Freud, Barthes, Heidegger and Derrida. The collection is valuable for students of art history, literature and philosophy.

Art, Modern --- Aesthetics, Modern --- Philosophy.

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Approche du milieu naturel et peuplement, histoire des origines à nos jours et régions et républiques de l'Union soviétique.

Art, Russian --- Art, Soviet --- Art russe --- Art soviétique --- Soviet Union --- URSS --- Civilization --- Maps --- Civilisation --- Cartes --- Art soviétique --- URSS. --- Russie --- Histoire

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For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books-known and prized the world over-such as Art and Visual Perception, Visual Thinking, and The Power of the Center (see list below). Now he has selected, from the remaining riches of his notebooks, the items in this volume. The book will be a joy to ramble through for all lovers of Arnheim's work, and indeed for anyone who shares Arnheim's contagious interest in the order that lies behind art, nature, and human life. It is a seedbed of ideas and observations in his special fields of psychology and the arts. "I have avoided mere images and I have avoided mere thoughts," says Arnheim in the Introduction, "but whenever an episode observed or a striking sentence read yielded a piece of insight I had not met before, I wrote it down and preserved it." There are also glimpses of his personal life-his wife, his cats, his students, his neighbors and colleagues. He is always concrete, in the manner that has become his trademark, often witty, and sometimes a bit wicked.In the blend of life and thought caught in these jottings, psychology and the arts are of course prominent. But philosophy, religion, and the natural sciences add to the medley of topics-always addressed in a way to sharpen the senses of the reader who, sharing Arnheim's cue from Dylan Thomas, may accompany him through "the parables of sun light and the legends of the green chapels and the twice told fields of childhood."All of Rudolf Arnheim's books have been published by the University of California Press.

Aesthetics. --- Art --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology. --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- abstract. --- architecture. --- arnheim. --- art and philosophy. --- art interpretation. --- art theory. --- art. --- artist. --- essays. --- famous artist. --- fine art. --- haiku. --- humor. --- jung. --- natural sciences. --- nature. --- nonfiction. --- personal observations. --- philosophy. --- power of mind. --- psychology of art. --- psychology. --- religion. --- social commentary. --- travel writing. --- visual rhetoric. --- wit.

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Arts. --- Communication in art. --- Arts --- Communication in art --- Artistic communication --- Art --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Arts, Primitive