The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 33
ndying charm lies in the fact thatin them In and Yo stand symbolizedand contrasted. They no longerobey a law of utility, but an abstractlaw of beauty, for in becoming sexu-ally expressive, as it were, the con-struction itself is sometimes weak-ened or falsified. The familiar classic console or… … CLEOPATRA ME.LTINQ THEPEARL, .5V TIEPOLO II UNITY AND POLARITY 27 ^ p w T»- w p \n I 1 \ ^L. are embellished gives it the appearance of not enteringthe wall at all, but of being stuck against it in somemiraculous manner. This defect in functional expressive-ness is more than compensated for by the…
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