Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Beautiful Necessity" by Claude Fayette Bragdon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Claude Bragdon the Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Bragdon (1866-1946) was a first-generation modernist architect, as well as an illustrator, critic, theorist and theater designer. Bragdon practiced architecture in Rochester, New York throughout the Progressive Era. Although his masterpiece, the New York Central Railroad Station, was demolished in the 1960s-70s, the First Universalist Church, the Bevier Memorial Building, the Peterborough Bridge near Toronto, and nearly 100 residences remain today. A prolific and influential writer, Bragdon published more than twenty books and hundreds of articles. He was nationally known for his graphic art, his writing on the fourth dimension, his Song & Light Festivals of 1915-1918, and his role in theater's New Stagecraft. He had technical and artistic expertise in many disciplines, making it difficult to categorize his work into a specific stylistic trend. Bragdon's work as an early modernist is important both in its own right and as a key to other 20th Century architects' work. The book includes a complete bibliography of Bragdon's published work, a timeline and an index. Contributors: Eugenia Victoria Ellis, Paul Emmons, Marcia Feuerstein, Marie Frank, Jean France, Joscelyn Godwin, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Christina Malathouni, Jonathan Massey, Mary Nixon, Joan Ockman, Andrea Reithmayr and Richard Guy Wilson.
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beautiful Necessity By Claude Fayette Bragdon
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Fayette Bragdon was an American architect, writer, and stage designer based in Rochester, New York, up to World War I, then in New York City.
Download or read book More Lives Than One written by Claude Bragdon and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Americans have had as many creative lives as Claude Bragdon who designed theatrical sets and churches, who dabbled in theosophy and the occult, who wrote about it all with spirit, passion, and penetrating insight. Here, in delightfully effervescent prose, Bragdon tells the story of his life-or lives. From his Personal Life ("Born under the constellation Leo, the heart sign, I was never long out of love") to his Occult Life ("I frightened [my mother] by declaring that I was the chosen vessel for the pouring out of a new revelation upon mankind"), Bragdon is surprisingly frank, frequently hilarious, and always wonderfully self-deprecating. First published in 1917, this is an intimate dispatch from a true American character. Other works by Bragdon available from Cosimo Classics: The Beautiful Necessity, 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.
Download or read book A Primer of Higher Space the Fourth Dimension written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Bragdon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beautiful Necessity By Claude Fayette Bragdon. A perfect mix of Architecture and Theosophy.
Download or read book Four Dimensional Vistas written by Claude Bragdon and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Bragdon and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted American architect of the early twentieth century discusses universal principles behind the harmonious forms and proportions of ancient and modern buildings. Seven essays by Claude Bragdon offer a master class in the architectural union of art, beauty, and science. His observations and analyses encompass a tremendous variety of buildings, from Gothic cathedrals to Giotto's Campanile to the Taj Mahal, and his examples extend far beyond architecture to the natural symmetry found in the feathers of a peacock's tail, snowflakes, plants, and the human face. "Art in all its manifestations is an expression of the cosmic life," notes the author, "and its symbols constitute a language by means of which this life is published and represented. Art is at all times subject to the 'Beautiful Necessity' of proclaiming the 'world order'." Bragdon's theories are illuminated by his graceful black-and-white line drawings, which portray the essentials of line and proportion as expressed in many well-known buildings and paintings.
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Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Bragdon and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer. Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio. He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor. Bragdon[s principal work was in the Rochester area. He was most proud of his designs for Rochester[s New York Central Railroad Station, the Rochester First Universalist Church, and the Rochester Italian Presbyterian Church, among many others. In his books on architectural theory, The Beautiful Necessity (1910), Architecture and Democracy (1918), and The Frozen Fountain (1938), he advocated a theosophical approach to building design, urging an [organic[ Gothic style (which he thought of as reflective of the natural order) over the [arranged[ modern abstract style that was coming into its own in the early 20th Century. He had yet another overlapping career as an author of books on spiritual topics, including Eastern religions. These books include: New Lamps for Old (1925), The Eternal Poles (1931), Four Dimensional Vistas (1930) and An Introduction to Yoga (1933). His autobiography More Lives Than One (1938) alludes to both his belief in reincarnation and his varied career paths.
Download or read book Yoga for You written by Claude Bragdon and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence and stillness have the effect of conserving all the bodily forces usually wasted in unnecessary speech and action. You become for the first time conscious of the rhythmic flow of life's forces, and are able to hear the faint music they make on the harp of the body. -from "Silence" One of the most extraordinary figures of the popular intellectualism of the early 20th century, Claude Bragdon was an architect and designer who turned his mathematically fueled artistic bent toward the metaphysical. Here, in wise, insightful prose, Bragdon offers an introduction-first published in 1943-to the philosophy of yoga as an aid to expanding the human consciousness. From mastering the art of concentration to finding new depth in sexuality, this is a frank, perceptive call to rethink how we live our lives in the modern world. Other works by Bragdon available from Cosimo Classics: The Eternal Poles, Four-Dimensional Vistas, Projective Ornament, The Beautiful Necessity, 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.
Download or read book Projective Ornament written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted American architect of the early twentieth century discusses universal principles behind the harmonious forms and proportions of ancient and modern buildings. Seven essays by Claude Bragdon offer a master class in the architectural union of art, beauty, and science. His observations and analyses encompass a tremendous variety of buildings, from Gothic cathedrals to Giotto's Campanile to the Taj Mahal, and his examples extend far beyond architecture to the natural symmetry found in the feathers of a peacock's tail, snowflakes, plants, and the human face.
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity written by Claude Bragdon and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven illustrated essays by a noted American builder of the early 20th century examine ancient and modern structures, offering a master class in the architectural union of art, beauty, and science.
Download or read book The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture written by Claude Fayette Bragdon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture by Claude Fayette Bragdon One of the advantages of a thorough assimilation of what may be called the theosophic idea is that it can be applied with advantage to every department of knowledge and of human activity: like the key to a cryptogram it renders clear and simple that which before seemed intricate and obscure. Let us apply this key to the subject of art, and to the art of architecture in particular, and see if by so doing we may not learn more of art than we knew before, and more of theosophy too. The theosophic idea is that everything is an expression of the Self-or whatever other name one may choose to give to that immanent unknown reality which forever hides behind all phenomenal life-but because, immersed as we are in materiality, our chief avenue of knowledge is sense perception, a more exact expression of the theosophic idea would be: Everything is the expression of the Self in terms of sense. Art, accordingly, is the expression of the Self in terms of sense. Now though the Self is one, sense is not one, but manifold: and therefore there are arts, each addressed to some particular faculty or group of faculties, and each expressing some particular quality or group of qualities of the Self. The white light of Truth is thus broken up into a rainbow-tinted spectrum of Beauty, in which the various arts are colors, each distinct, yet merging one into another-poetry into music; painting into decoration; decoration becoming sculpture; sculpture-architecture, and so on. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
