[HN Gopher] Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022) ___________________________________________________________________ Claude Bragdon: Drawings of the Fourth Dimension (2022) Author : diaphanous Score : 41 points Date : 2023-12-30 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (socks-studio.com) (TXT) w3m dump (socks-studio.com) | diaphanous wrote: | _Claude Fayette Bragdon_ | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Fayette_Bragdon | | https://theosophyart.org/2018/03/30/claude-fayette-bragdon/ | | _The Bevier Memorial Building at night: another dimension of | Claude Bragdon_ | | 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_ | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-30 23:00 UTC)