{"product_id":"the-beautiful-necessity-seven-essays-on-theosophy-and-architecture-9781596053588","title":"The Beautiful Necessity, Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Claude Fayette Bragdon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cosimo Classics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cosimo Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47589523554455,"sku":"9781596053588","price":1122.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781596053588.webp?v=1774969029","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-beautiful-necessity-seven-essays-on-theosophy-and-architecture-9781596053588","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}