The Split and the Structure: Twenty-Eight Essays

Rating:
Summary: Bridging the gap between the arts and science
Review: This is the first book I've read by Arheim, but surely not the last. These 28 clearly written non-technical essays are a delight to read and contemplate. Arheim'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.

Rating:
Summary: Bridging the gap between the arts and science
Review: This is the first book I've read by Arheim, but surely not the last. These 28 clearly written non-technical essays are a delight to read and contemplate. Arheim'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.