Book contents
- A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
- A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Part I Art as a Complex Process
- Part II Entangled Timescales of Visual Arts
- Chapter 6 Timescales of Art as Interacting Processes
- Chapter 7 Timescales of Artistic Activity
- Chapter 8 Timescales of Artistic Careers
- Chapter 9 The Timescale of Excellence and Celebrity
- Chapter 10 The Timescale of Art History
- Chapter 11 The Timescale of Deep History and of Human Evolution
- Part III Understanding Art Through Dynamic Models
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Timescales of Art as Interacting Processes
from Part II - Entangled Timescales of Visual Arts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2025
- A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
- A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Part I Art as a Complex Process
- Part II Entangled Timescales of Visual Arts
- Chapter 6 Timescales of Art as Interacting Processes
- Chapter 7 Timescales of Artistic Activity
- Chapter 8 Timescales of Artistic Careers
- Chapter 9 The Timescale of Excellence and Celebrity
- Chapter 10 The Timescale of Art History
- Chapter 11 The Timescale of Deep History and of Human Evolution
- Part III Understanding Art Through Dynamic Models
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 is the first chapter in the second part of the book, titled “Entangled Timescales of the Visual Arts.” Chapter 6 explains the meaning of this title by focusing on an important feature of complex systems, namely, that they consist of interacting processes on different time scales, from very short to very long. These processes are entangled, that is, they occur in continuous interaction and are interdependent. These entangled processes form the basis for important complexity features of the arts, such as self-organization, emergence, novelty and creativity, attractors, critical states, variability, and so on.
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- A Complex Systems View on the Visual Arts , pp. 115 - 117Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025