Beauty, Memory, Unity - A Theory of Proportion in Architecture (Bass Steve)(Paperback / softback)

Ancient architects and artists had a way of striking resonant chords in those who viewed of their work. However, this skill seems to have disappeared. Beauty Memory Unity points toward a possibility of regaining a new sense of unity in the visual arts through a combination of theoretical ideas and practical methods, of narrative description and visual exercises. Proportion--the use of number and geometry as the tools of design--is seen in the context of the search for the Beautiful, a state the soul achieves when one recognizes the phenomenon of unity. From the theoretical symbolic mathematics of the Pythagoreans, Platonists, and Neo-Platonists, Steve Bass proposes an aesthetic theory--a way of approaching beauty--rooted in the idea of psyche, expressed through the ancient arts and sciences of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. "All those possessing even a small
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