Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
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When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
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| Birth: | 15th July, 1904 |
| Death: | 9th June, 2007 |
| Nationality: | American, German |
| Profession: | Author, Theorist |
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Rudolf Arnheim was a German-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist. He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, Visual Thinking, and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts, but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he was most widely known.
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