Platonic Architectonics: Platonic Philosophies & the Visual Arts examines philosophical
structures of Plato in their structural spatial and architectonic implications. It examines
elements of Plato's philosophical systems in relation to other philosophical systems including
those of Anaximander Plotinus Proclus Nicolas Cusanus Marsilio Ficino Georges Bataille
Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida. It also examines Plato's philosophy in relation to
architectonic conceptions in the arts including the work of Leon Battista Alberti and Piero
della Francesca in the Renaissance Paul Cézanne and the Cubists and Deconstructivists in the
twentieth century. Platonic Architectonics presents new interpretations of philosophical texts
artistic treatises and works of art and architecture in Western culture as they are
interrelated and related to Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophical structures. It demonstrates
the importance of philosophy in the production of the visual arts throughout history and the
importance of the relation between the work of art and the philosophical text and artistic
treatise.
