FAH102H1 Lecture 3: FAH102 Week 3.docx
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Ancient texts on poetics and rhetoric were so fundamental that they can be seen to inform all the humanistic pursuits, such as poetry, tragedy, literature in general, the visual arts, and architecture. Both are founded upon the idea of order. In aristotle"s poetics he seeks to draw distinctions and set up categories within literature. He differentiates on the basis of medium, object imitated, and the manner of imitation or point of view in narration. A work of art can arouse feelings of great intensity. Vitruvius sets up formal categories for architecture, establishing those forms the conscious sense of arrangement that are necessary to make the building expressive and coherent; calls these forms the fundamental principles of architecture. Order gives due to measure to the members of a work considered separately, and symmetrical agreement to the proportions of the whole. Arrangement includes the putting of things in their proper places. Eurythmy is beauty and fitness in the adjustments of the members.
