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Karl Gerstner : review of seven chapters of constructive pictures, etc.

by Eugen Gomringer, John Southard

This book reviews fifty years of constructive art created through algorithmic processes rather than traditional composition. It explores the development of serial pictures, interactive objects, colour-and-form models, and works based on fractal geometry.

Accession 4248 ISBN 3775791515 Publisher Hatje Cantz
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