ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that considerable detail the fluctuation and recurrence of the Ideational and Visual and main intermediary styles in painting and sculpture. It shows that first, categories can be applied to other classes of art phenomena—namely, architecture, music, literature, and criticism. Second, that somewhat similar recurrences and fluctuations of these styles go on also in these fields of art; third, what the relationship is to one another of the waves of Ideationalism and Visualism in each of them. Regardless of the variety of the architectural types from other standpoints, it is possible to distinguish the elements of both the Ideational and Visual styles in architectural creations. In the Visual style of architecture such a symbolism is absent: its value lies in its visual effects and in its success in meeting the utilitarian needs which it has to serve, and that is all.
