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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
978-1-58420-967-6 |
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NUFAIRVIEW |
| Transcribing agency |
NUFAIRVIEW |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
NA 2760 B37 2019 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bass, Steve |
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author |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Beauty, memory, unity : |
| Remainder of title |
a theory of proportion in architecture and design / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Steve Bass |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Hudson, NY : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Lindisfarne Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 355 pages : |
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illustration. ; |
| Dimensions |
31 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
50 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
(Classical America series on art and architecture) |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Foreword / Keith Critchlow<br/>Introduction<br/>I. The Search for the beautiful : Position of proportion<br/>Number and beauty<br/>Pythagoras and qualitative number<br/>Psyche<br/>Remebrance and the journey of the soul<br/>Plotinus on beauty<br/>Beauty and the good<br/>Diotima's lecture on beauty<br/>The liberal arts : A pythagorean-based creation myth<br/>Oneness: the monad<br/>Twoness: the dyad<br/>Threeness: the triad<br/>Fourness: the tetrad<br/>Fiveness: the pentad<br/>The pentad and phi<br/>The root powers<br/>The decade<br/>The teraktys<br/>The platonic lambda<br/>Number, geometry, music<br/>Ration, proportion, logos<br/>Astronomy<br/>Looking up and down<br/>II. Number harmony design : Introduction<br/>A geometrical creation story<br/>The musical octave<br/>A tetrastyle portico<br/>An ontogeny of the root powers<br/>Properties of the root rectangles<br/>The golden section<br/>Squaring the circle<br/>A tetrastyle portico<br/>Creating a Ø scale<br/>Tetrastyle portico[s]<br/>Hexastyle portico[s] ; Octastyle portico[s]<br/>The classical order and canon of 19<br/>The Doric capital<br/>The Ionic capital<br/>The Corinthian capital<br/>Entablatures of the three principal orders<br/>Pediments<br/>Superposition<br/>Arcades<br/>Palladio's harmonic ratios for rooms<br/>Harmonic volumes of Robert Morris<br/>An expansion of the tetrastyle<br/>An expansion of the hexastyle<br/>The "pillar" of Egypt<br/>Vertical expansion<br/>Geometric rectangles of Hambidge<br/>Division of the frame<br/>III. Proportion in practice : Introduction<br/>Egypt<br/>Greece<br/>Rome I: Vitruvius<br/>Rome II<br/>The medieval era<br/>Early Renaissance<br/>Late Renaissance<br/>The Enlightenment<br/>IV. The present moment |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Examining the sense of unity and harmony in architecture, and calling for a return to the use of proportion, this book ranges impressively from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Enlightment. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC. |
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PROPORTION (ANTHROPOMETRY) IN ART. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- COMPOSITION, PROPORTION, ETC. |
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Books |
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No |
