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  • The tradition of ut pictura poesis, described in Horace's Art of Poetry, and Aristotle's mimesis historia, the imitation of human events discussed in Poetics, is embedded in Alberti's articulation of istoria.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The long-awaited world premiere of aptly called The Poetics of Color, a documentary on the life of the now 75 year old Natvar Bhavsar, the great Indian painter colorist, took place at the packed SVA Theater several days ago, amid much excitement in the Chelsea movie house.

    Norman Darden: Breaking into the Global Art Market Norman Darden 2010

  • The long-awaited world premiere of aptly called The Poetics of Color, a documentary on the life of the now 75 year old Natvar Bhavsar, the great Indian painter colorist, took place at the packed SVA Theater several days ago, amid much excitement in the Chelsea movie house.

    Norman Darden: Breaking into the Global Art Market Norman Darden 2010

  • The long-awaited world premiere of aptly called The Poetics of Color, a documentary on the life of the now 75 year old Natvar Bhavsar, the ...

    Norman Darden: Breaking into the Global Art Market Norman Darden 2010

  • The long-awaited world premiere of aptly called The Poetics of Color, a documentary on the life of the now 75 year old Natvar Bhavsar, the ...

    Norman Darden: Breaking into the Global Art Market Norman Darden 2010

  • I peer at a fine painting called Poetics of Space showing the interior of a house next to an urban environment, painted in a turquoise blue.

    WalesOnline - Home 2010

  • Levin (1929-2007), best known for his novels "Rosemary's Baby" (1967) and "The Stepford Wives" (1972), had obviously mastered the principles of Aristotle's "Poetics," for Deathtrap abounds in "peripeteia" or sudden reversals of fortune.

    The Gothic Twist of an Intricate 'Deathtrap 2010

  • [33] Perhaps one may quote here, not inappropriately, the famous saying of Aristotle in his "Poetics", that "poetry is a more philosophic thing than history, and of a higher seriousness."

    The Jesus of History T. R. Glover

  • The first special treatise on æsthetics, the "Poetics" of Aristotle, belongs to this type of inquiry, as does all criticism of art in so far as it aims at the formulation of general principles.

    The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916

  • Aristotle, on the other hand, gravely analyzed the form and properties of the beautiful as, in his "Poetics", he analyzed the art of epic, tragic, and comic poetry.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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