Od rozproszenia do materializacji. Energia i entropia w sztukach wizualnych lat sześćdziesiątych a pierwszych dekad XXI wieku
From Dispersion to Materialisation. Energy and Entropy in Visual Arts – From the 1960s to 2010s

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the topic of energy and entropy in visual arts, focusing on the reformulations which took place between the 1960s and the first decades of the 21st century. The shifts discussed are presented within the antihumanist turn of the 1960s, when entropy proved useful for various artists (especially Hans Hacke and Robert Smithson) in their postulates on the autonomy of a work of art, and the later, within the turn of materialisation of energy and entropy in the context of ecological crises (which is the main focus of such artists as Peter Blamey, David Haines, Joyce Hinterding or Olafur Eliasson). This research stems from the concept of the Entropocene, proposed by Bernard Stiegler, which states that entropy is a phenomenon that most adequately characterizes all crises of the human era.

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