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"Glossary" (1), the Arta Review, Bucharest, Romania, February-August, 1971. The "Glossary" was published throughout most of 1971, as a series of monthly articles. It deals with such terms as: cybernetics, structure, input, output, feedback behavior, information, the significance of information, feedback, black-box, redundancy, noise, sensibility, original, entropy, etc. Contemporary art. which is so extremely diversified as regards tendencies and techniques, has made necessary the adoption of a vocabulary appropriate to this situation comprising notions which have appeared in the development of scientific and technological thought. |
In the columns we are opening we are attempting to define, within the measure of the possible, terms which have acquired a wider circulation in art criticism.
We say "within the measure of the possible", since the problem of definition is a permanently open one. For the terms which are defined in several ways, we have sought to present the most broadly spread acceptions. |