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Rectilinearity

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Rec`ti`lin`e`ar´i`ty    (~?r´?`t?)
n.1.The quality or state of being rectilinear.
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Several years back, a similar and equally beneficent transformation occurred a few blocks south at the Time Warner Building, whose concave facade now embraces the curve of Columbus Circle in a way that contrasts dramatically with the tasteless, stubborn rectilinearity of the unmourned-for Coliseum, which occupied the site before.
James Gardner - Bringing light into a fortress at Alice Tully Hall by Gardner, James / The Real Deal
Still, a narrative emerged, however picaresque: Jarmolince III, 1973, one of a series of shaped collage reliefs inspired by Polish synagogues bombed in World War II, showed Stella's move away from the wall and into the third dimension, while the arabesque aluminum projections of The Dart (D-15) 1X, 1990, enameled in an assortment of black-and-white patterns, represented his departure from rectilinearity.
"Frank Stella: Painting into Architecture"; Metropolitan Museum of ... by Turvey, Lisa / Artforum International
For example, in chapter three we are told that the trope of hyperbaton is present in the Candelaio as a means to underscore the process of rectilinearity by "inverting and diverting order.
Arielle Saiber. Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language by Colilli, Paul / Italica
 
 
 
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