Entropy and Art

by Rudolf Arnheim

Book Overview

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;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520026179
• ISBN13: 9780520026179
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A Classic from a Master

Rudolf Arnheim, from the strange and deep 1970's decade, wrote a seminal and almost unnoticed classic about the relation between Entropy and Art. The book has different properties, depending on who is the reader: an artist, a semiotician, an "architectural morphologist". Arnheim exposes the more embarrassing question to the design methodology: the bare principles of an information theory related to the most qualitative matter, Art. It is an amazingly inspiring booklet, who will find (much) more readers along the Century.