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A Theory of Pure Design

by Denman Waldo Ross

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The Order of Harmony in Attitudes

52. The repetition of any relation of positions without change of attitude gives us Harmony of Attitudes.

In this case we have not only a Harmony in the repetition of a certain relation of positions and of intervals, but a Harmony of Attitudes. We have, in the relation of positions repeated, a certain shape. In the repetition of the shape we have Shape-Harmony. In the repetition of the shape in a certain attitude we have a Harmony of Attitudes.

In this case we have lost the Harmony of Attitudes which we had in Fig. 54, but not the Harmony of a certain shape repeated.

53. The possibilities of Harmony in the repetition of any relation of positions in the same attitude has been discussed. A Harmony of Attitudes will occur, also, in the repetition of any relation of attitudes.

Here we have Harmony in the repetition of a relation of two attitudes of a certain group of positions. The combination of the two attitudes gives us another group of positions and the Harmony lies in the repetition of this group.

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