An edition of Novelty
(2013)
Novelty
a history of the new
by North, Michael
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A tour of thoughts about the new over the millennia from the pre-Socratics to the 1970s art world.
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First Sentence
"The state of being recent, unfamiliar, or different from the past is actually a littl difficult to talk about in itself, since modern English is peculiarly deficient in respectable terms for the new."
Table of Contents
How newness comes into the world
Newness comes into the world
Two traditions of the new: cycles and combinations
Darwin's renovation of the new
Counting and accounting for the new: probability, information theory, genetics
Novelty in the twentieth century
The structure of scientific discovery: Kuhn and Weiner
Making it new: novelty and aesthetic modernism
Modernist novelty and the neo-avant-garde.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-250) and index.
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