Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (2):280-281 (1973)
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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

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0520018036   9780520266001

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10.2307/429052

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