Moles, Abraham. Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (Teoriia informatsii i esteticheskoe vospriiatie), 1966. In Russian

Моль, Абраам. Теория информации и эстетическое восприятие / Пер. с фр. В. А. Власюка, Ю. Ф. Кичатова, А. И. Теймана; Под ред. Р. Зарипова и В. Иванова.
Москва: Мир, 1966.
352 с. Твёрдый переплёт, обычный формат. Состояние: Хорошее.
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Moles, Abraham. Information Theory and Esthetic Perception (Teoriia informatsii i esteticheskoe vospriiatie). Translated from French.
Moscow: Mir, 1966.
352 pp. Hardcover, standard format. Condition: Good.

This 1966 edition is the landmark Russian translation of Abraham Moles’ pioneering work, which fundamentally reshaped the intersection of science and art. Moles (1920–1992), a polymath and a founding father of "information aesthetics," was the first to rigorously apply the principles of cybernetics and Shannon’s information theory to the elusive realm of human creativity and artistic reception.
The book introduces the critical distinction between "semantic information" (logical and translatable) and "aesthetic information" (untranslatable and tied to the medium), utilizing the concept of redundancy to explain why we find certain works of art predictable or avant-garde. The Soviet edition was meticulously edited by R. Zaripov and Vyacheslav Ivanov—key figures in Soviet semiotics and cybernetics—who provided an extensive afterword contextualizing Moles' theories within the burgeoning structuralist movements of the 1960s. This volume remains a cornerstone for scholars of communications, musicology, and the digital humanities.