Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order - Softcover

Arnheim, Rudolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520026179 ISBN 13: 9780520026179

Publisher: University of California Press, 1974

Synopsis

Views the process of artistic creation in light of the conflict between man's quest for order and increasing universal disorder

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

“Arnheim was the best kind of romantic. His wisdom, his patient explanations and lyrical enthusiasm are those of a teacher.”--New York Times “The psychology of art is never as easy as a-b-c, but this book avoids the general obtuseness of such treatises. It will give your mind a good honing.”--Art Direction 

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0520026179
• ISBN 13: 9780520026179
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64