After Postmodernism: Michael Pearce Writes About 'Art in the Age of Emergence'
Category: ARTS
Emergence, a cross-disciplinary theory which deals with the way that higher-order complexity can arise out of chaos, presents a powerful new model for aesthetics. For Pearce, emergence opened a dynamic alternative to what he feels have been the reductive and culturally erosive tendencies of Postmodernism in art.
By John Seed, ContributorProfessor of Art and Art History, Mt. San Jacinto College, 2015-05-10