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The Beautiful Necessity, Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
by Claude Bragdon
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| More and more science is coming to recognize, what theosophy affirms, that the spiral vortex... both in its time and its space aspects is the universal archetype... -from "Changeless Change" First published in 1910 and updated in 1922-this is a reproduction of that second edition-this is architect and theosophist Claude Bragdon's exploration of art as an "expression of the cosmic life." And what a glorious exploration is it. The essay titles hint at the lyricism of Bragdon's prose: · "The Art of Architecture" · "Unity and Polarity" · "Changeless Change" · "The Bodily Temple" · "Latent Geometry" · "The Arithmetic of Beauty" · "Frozen Music" Accompanied by lovely and informative line drawings, these essays constitute a master class in the philosophy of art, beauty, science, and the intersection of all three. Other works by Bragdon available from Cosimo Classics: More Lives Than One, Architecture and Democracy, Episodes from An Unwritten History, and A Primer of Higher Space (The Fourth Dimension). American architect, stage designer, and writer CLAUDE FAYETTE BRAGDON (1866-1946) helped found the Rochester Architectural Club, in the city where he made his greatest mark as a building designer with structures including Rochester Central Station, Rochester Institute of Technology, and the First Universalist Church; he also designed Peterborough Bridge in Ontario. In later life, Bragdon worked on Broadway as scenic designer for 1930s productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and Hamlet, among others. |
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| Product Details |
- Publisher: Cosimo Classics
- ISBN-10: 1-59605-358-5
- ISBN-13: 978-1-59605-358-8
- Amazon.com Sales Rank #8229811
- Published on: November 01, 2005
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 116 pages
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