The Beautiful Necessity
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Buildings, musical intervals and the shapes of plants belong to one system of beauty in Claude Fayette Bragdon's architectural essays. First published in 1910, the seven essays connect theosophy with the belief that art expresses an underlying order in the universe. Bragdon compares music, which unfolds through time, with architecture, whose forms occupy space. Poetry, painting and sculpture enter his argument as related ways of giving ideas a perceptible form.
His discussion of balance includes the unequal towers of Amiens, while shells, leaves and the spacing of guitar frets help illustrate rhythmic change. Columns and the treatment of stonework show how buildings can appear increasingly delicate as they rise. The book brings spiritual interpretation together with mathematical reasoning and close attention to design.
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Book facts
- Author
- Claude Fayette Bragdon
- Reading time
- About 100 minutes
- Pages
- 61
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Essays
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online