[HN Gopher] Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022)
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       Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022)
        
       Author : diaphanous
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2023-12-30 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | diaphanous wrote:
       | _Claude Fayette Bragdon_
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Fayette_Bragdon
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       | https://theosophyart.org/2018/03/30/claude-fayette-bragdon/
       | 
       |  _The Bevier Memorial Building at night: another dimension of
       | Claude Bragdon_
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       | https://talkerofthetown.com/2017/05/11/the-bevier-memorial-b...
       | 
       |  _Claude Bragdon: His Work in Rochester_
       | 
       | https://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/Architects/...
       | 
       |  _Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon, Ornament, and Modern
       | Architecture_
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       | https://upittpress.org/books/9780822943624/
        
       | swayvil wrote:
       | I look at his work and feel love. What a great guy. Such depth,
       | breadth and sensitivity.
       | 
       | Forget collecting art. I think I'd rather collect artists.
       | 
       | And he was a theosophist!
        
         | diaphanous wrote:
         | I believe he was also the person who first got P.D. Ouspensky
         | published in English.
         | 
         | Edit: yes - he produced the first English translation of
         | Ouspensky as early as 1919. Ouspensky was a refugee in
         | Constantinople, had no idea the translation had come out, and
         | Bradgon had no idea where he was. Eventually they found him and
         | sent him a royalty check and this eventually led to Ouspensky's
         | emigrating to England.
        
       | zuluonezero wrote:
       | Just lost half an hour on this site, Well done and thank you.
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Not many previous threads but I found two from the site:
         | 
         |  _Isometric Geological Diagrams_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37898223 - Oct 2023 (4
         | comments)
         | 
         |  _Walls as Rooms (2012)_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144031 - Feb 2019 (2
         | comments)
        
       | at_a_remove wrote:
       | Something about this feels like a comedy of manners about a
       | recent fad for some section of mathematics instead of, say,
       | learning Hungarian, blazing like smallpox through a set of the
       | gentry ... combined with a touch of the Lovecraftian horror of
       | revelation of subjects too large for a brain only recently post-
       | simian, more tuned to hurling rocks than visualization of the
       | perambulations of higher-order Platonics through a more
       | understandable, lesser membrane. One might imagine the Thirteenth
       | Duke of Wybourne, having commissioned from an artisan a fine set
       | of Hinton cubes and, upon their reception, ensconced them in some
       | parlour corner bit of cabinetry, only for a succession of his
       | niece's acquaintances to fall victim to some palsy, seizure, or
       | neurasthenic disorder purely because her companions were
       | typically relegated to a particular chair near the offending
       | objects of uncanny intellectual curiosity. Why _do_ all of her
       | friends fare so poorly?
        
         | hnthrowaway0328 wrote:
         | I have to say I don't understand much of your reply except for
         | the Lovecraftian part, but I found it particularly geeky.
        
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