id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.fl14y4 Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946. Projective ornament 1915 .txt text/plain 2906 227 67 THE NEED OF A NEW FORM Architecture and ornament constitute such a language. the conventionalization of natural forms, or lastly it might be developed from geometry. develop a new form language, it is impossible to The development of new architectural forms appropriate and beautiful ornament is one of the Those arts of space Three possible sources of supply suggest themselves for this needed element in a new form language. hold of a new ornamental mode? Japanese ornament was derived from geometry, yet and configurations which shall yield that new ornamental mode of which we are in search. transfer of attention should give birth to a new aesthetic, expressive of the changing psychological mood. Space, and the decorative motifs of the new aesthetic may appropriately be sought in four-dimensional geometry. Ornament develops not from the or cross-sections of corresponding figures in fourdimensional space. SPACE AND TIME: THE FIELD AND THE FRAME ./cache/hvd.fl14y4.pdf ./txt/hvd.fl14y4.txt