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- Title
THE AESTHETIC VALUE OF FRACTAL IMAGES.
- Authors
Short, Larry
- Abstract
The article discusses the impact of the development of fractals in the twentieth century on the relationship between science, art, and aesthetics. It is asserted that as knowledge of the world became more sophisticated and Euclidean geometry could be seen to be inadequate for describing natural objects, the links between mathematics and nature, and art and nature, were more difficult to make. The applicability of fractals to sounds that happen in time, as well as to distributions in space, is discussed. Richard Voss has analyzed music and found it has a quality in common with naturally occurring noise. Details relating to the author's sound experiments are provided. The aesthetic theory of Immanuel Kant is examined.
- Subjects
FRACTALS; FRACTALS in art; AESTHETICS; HISTORY of mathematics; MATHEMATICS in art; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; VOSS, Richard
- Publication
British Journal of Aesthetics, 1991, Vol 31, Issue 4, p342
- ISSN
0007-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/bjaesthetics/31.4.342