Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1979

Douglas Hofstadter’s Publishes Book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Publication

Cover of Gödel, Escher, Bach with wooden forms casting letter-shaped shadows on three illuminated surfaces; title and Douglas R. Hofstadter's name below.
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979. Shown: the Basic Books paperback edition published in 1999. Cover image: Basic Books / Hachette Book Group. Rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Image source.

This book exploring the latest trends in math, logic and computer language, would greatly influence artist Roman Verostko.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, M.C. Escher, Roman Verostko

Movements

computer art

Filed under

Ideas
mathematics
Technologies
computer art, programming, symbolic logic
People
Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, M.C. Escher, Roman Verostko
Works
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Other subjects
Bach, Hofstadter

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