ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the meaning of the Ideational, Sensate, Idealistic, and the Mixed categories in the field of art phenomena. It discusses a definite and universal sequence in the development of various arts in all cultures and civilizations. According to Petrie not all forms of art in a given culture, or in its great period, blossom simultaneously. In contradistinction to Petrie he does not think that "Sculpture and Architecture go closely together in all ages." The essence of Ligeti's theory of the art sequence is as follows: in any great culture, at the beginning of its development architecture is the first and earliest form of art to blossom; then comes the blossoming of sculpture, which happens at the period of maturity; and finally, the blossoming of painting takes place at the declining stage of the culture. Such a theory of a uniform lag is but the theory of uniform sequence of change in various arts.
