Hambidge, Jay, 1867-1924, Yale University. Rutherford Trowbridge Memorial Publication Fund · New Haven, Conn., New York City, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.] · leaf 188
DYNAMIC SYMMETRY 140 "systems" of proportion which have been produced. Indeed, so many of these "systems" have appeared during the past fifty or seventy-five years that a list of even their names would be wearisome.* … Fig. 6. The discovery of the design value of the regular figures of area is spontaneous. These shapes appear in the decoration, and often in the building construction, of many peoples. Apparently continued use of these elementary forms inevi- tably produces a system that is eventually recognizable…
Design · Vases, Greek
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