"The Dreams of Reason" by Heinz R. Pagels

Sub-titled as "The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity" the book is still current, even if it was written 20 years ago.Complexity sometimes is represented by a story in this 300 odd page survey of how computers have changed the sciences. Picasso is mentioned on pg. 163. In response to being asked "Why he doesn't draw the way people are?" He responded "Isn't she a little small and flat?" after looking at a picture of a man's wife.