Entropy and Art: Essay on Disorder and Order

by Rudolf Arnheim

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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.
  • ISBN10 0520018036
  • ISBN13 9780520018037
  • Publish Date 1 January 1971
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 22 November 1999
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 80
  • Language English