The Split & the Structure – Twenty Eight Essays

by: Rudolf Aheim (Author)

Publisher: University of Califoia Press

Publication Date: 17 Sept. 1996

Language: English

Print Length: 194 pages

ISBN-10: 0520204778

ISBN-13: 9780520204775

Book Description

Rudolf Aheim’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 gaered him an established and devoted audience. That audience will take pleasure in Aheim’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 Aheim’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, Aheim makes it easy and exciting to follow him as he thinks. America is not abundantly supplied with ‘public intellectuals’ such as Rudolf Aheim – 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’.
Rudolf Aheim’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 gaered him an established and devoted audience. That audience will take pleasure in Aheim’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 Aheim’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, Aheim makes it easy and exciting to follow him as he thinks. America is not abundantly supplied with ‘public intellectuals’ such as Rudolf Aheim – 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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