Books Received

schizophrenia) that have cast light on aesthetics each have a special chapter. A sixpage summary and evaluation concludes the work. Winner describes each theory and experiment in some detail, with greater attention to systematic, measurable evidence than to clinical or anecdotal reports. She typically adds her own critique, from a common-sense viewpoint, and frequently discounts scme of the psychologists’ claims. Understandably, she is warmest towards her own group, the cognitive psychologists, and includes a great deal of detail on research by Daniel Berlyne, Rudolf Arnheim, Nelson Goodman and Susanne Langer. These studies seem to have more to do with learning than with art. The bulk ofthe psychology research appears to concern children’s perceptions and understandings . Next most common is the study of perception in the adult. Theories concerning motivation and content are prominent in the clinical literature but have proven to explain only a few examples in art and literature, according to Winner. She points out that research in all three branches of the arts seems superficial compared to studies of the psychology of other human activities. It is either sweeping and unreliable or narrow and not illuminating. The physical appearance of Invented Worlds is beautiful, with titles in sensitively spaced calligraphy, attractive typesetting, and a wealth of illustrations. However, reading from cover to cover is tedious. I feltthat the research most significant to the arts was that concerned with the two halves of the brain. This is buried in the chapter called ‘The Damaged Brain’ but might have been better featured near the beginning in the discussion of the artist. Winner’s most interesting writing is in the epilogue of evaluation. This methodical, scholarly, well-documented work gives the impression that psychologists have touched only the fringes of aesthetics. The deep and fascinating questions about inspiration, communication, satisfying form, relation of form and content, etc. remain largely unexplored. It would doubtless prove more fruitful to search the fine arts for insights into psychology. Reviewed by Nancy Hubbe, 288 Katahdin Ave., Millinockct, ME 04462,U.S.A. Books Received Aesthetics ofMovement. Paul Souriau. Edited and translated by Manon Souriau. Univ. of Mass. Press, Amherst, 1983.160 pp., illus. Cloth, $22.50. ISBN: 0-87023-412-9. Architecture o f Death. Richard A. Etlin. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984.441 pp., illus. Cloth, $37.50.ISBN: Brucken Bridges. Fritz Leonhardt. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984. 308 pp., illus. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: Color: Essence and Logic. Rolf G. Kuehni. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1983.140pp.,illus. Cloth, $17.50. Consciousness:Natural anddrtificial. James T. Culbertson. Libra Publishers, Long Island,NY, 1982.313pp.,illus. Digital Image Processing: A Systems Approach. William B. Green. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1982.192 pp.. illus. Cloth, $34.50.ISBN: 0-442-28801-8. Distance and Space: A Geographical Perspective. Anthony C. Gatrell. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1983.195 pp., illus. Paper, $12.95.ISBN: 0-19-874129-4. Dreams and Nightmares: Utopian Visions in Modern Art. Valerie J. Fletcher. Smithsonian Institution Press, Wash., DC, 1983.202 pp., illus. Cloth, $42.50.ISBN: 0-8-474-432-6. Emerging Goddess. Albert Rothenberg. Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979.440pp.,illus. Cloth, $22.50. Paper, History o f Graphic Design. Philip B. Meggs. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1983.511 pp., illus. Cloth,$35.00. Industriekultur: Peter Behrens and the A.E.G. Tillman Buddenseig. Trans. by lain Boyd White. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1984.520 pp., illus. Cloth, $75.00.ISBN: 0-262-04074-3. Politics of Inrerpretation. Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1983.386 pp., illus. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-226-53220-8.Paper, $9.95.ISBN: 0-226-53220-8. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Display Holography. Edited by Tung Hon Jeong. Holography Workshops, 1983.239 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-910535-01-9. Relativity Visualized. Lewis C. Epstein. Insight Press, San Francisco, 1983. 199 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: Social Limits of Art. John Manfredi. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1982.199 pp., illus. Cloth, Talking Computers and Telecommunications. John A. Kuecken. Van Nostrand Reinhold,New York, 1983.237pp., illus. Cloth, $26.50.ISBN: 0-442-24721-4. Thinking Physics (Is Gedanken Physics). Lewis E. Epstein. Insight...