The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change
Language: English
Published by Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990
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- Title
- The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change
- Author
- Martindale, Colin
- Publisher
- Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0465011861
- ISBN 13
- 9780465011865
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
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Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
In this book Martindale (psychology, Univ. of Maine) develops an evolutionary theory of aesthetic history based upon computer analyses and quantitative experiments with human subjects. He compares his abstract evolutionary theory with theories in pure science, arguing that demand for novelty gained with the least effort drives art history in an orderly and predictable fashion. He outlines his theory in the first two chapters and spends the remainder of the book describing his experimental proofs. Martindale states that his theory is objective and based on a deterministic view of reality--an assertion at odds with contemporary chaos theory and gender or ethnic criticism. Martindale insists that such approaches are philosophy, not science, but his experimental samples are predominantly white, Western, and male. Recommended only for libraries serving subject specialists.
- Lucy Patrick, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee
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