Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright by Shoaff, John H.
Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright by Shoaff, John H.

Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright confronted us with two challenges when he wrote of his buildings that certain "basic...
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Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright by Shoaff, John H.

Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright

$56.50
Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright by Shoaff, John H.

Art, Vision, and Symmetry: The Hidden Geometry of Frank Lloyd Wright

$56.50
Author: John H. Shoaff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright confronted us with two challenges when he wrote of his buildings that certain "basic principles behind the effects" "give to them all such vitality, integrity, and magic as they have." The first challenge: to uncover these principles; and, the second, to explain how they yield works of such aesthetic range and power.

He gave us the first clue-each building emerges from "the differentiation of a single, certain, simple form"; but he left it for us to find the often complex process of "differentiation" that follows.

This book reveals that process. In fifteen case studies it shows how simple geometries repeat, grow, crystallize, and overlap, disciplined by their internal structure, to yield "the integration that is organic" that constitutes the final masterpiece.

These geometries are highlighted separately in a sequence of images. By following them the engaged amateur will enrich his understanding of Wright's works; the critic can evaluate them for himself; and the student will find in them the source of a discipline he can apply to his own efforts.

In an effort to explain the aesthetic "magic," that follows from this discipline, the book then turns to the sciences of vision. It explores basic mechanisms by which the eye and mind make coherent vision possible, and concludes that the freshness, clarity, and vitality of Wright's oeuvre follow from his discovery and employment of some of the most basic mechanics of perception, by which he created for the eye maximum pleasure from least effort.

From this follows a theory of aesthetics.




Author: John H. Shoaff
Publisher: John Shoaff
Published: 12/23/2020
Pages: 108
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781950659364

About the Author
Shoaff, John H.: - The discoveries laid out in this book were made during the 27 years John Shoaff lived in a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home. His explorations were aided by an eclectic education in the visual arts and the basic sciences, culminating in a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University, that continued as a lifetime study of the life and physical sciences-through which he approached the problem of the aesthetic power of Wright's genius.
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