Entropy and Art - An Essay on Disorder and Order - 40th Anniversary Edition

40th Anniversary Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-520-26600-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 107 g

This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics - between the tendency toward greater organization and the general trend of the material universe toward death and disorder.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arnheim, Rudolf

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Rudolf Arnheim (1904-2007) was Professor Emeritus of the Psychology of Art at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College. He was author of many books, including Art and Visual Perception, Film as Art, Power of the Center, and Visual Thinking.