It’s all bullshit because it does not yield any objectively meaningful or arrive at some physically beautiful truth. It is a social construct, just like letterform proportions and book margin ratios. In this sense, it is as bullshity as Durer’s roman capital construction diagrams.
But when you have a ton of people repeating it over a long time, it can get embedded into the collective aesthetic consciousness and enforced by trade practices. Then posterior rationalization kicks in.
It’s all bullshit because it does not yield any objectively meaningful or arrive at some physically beautiful truth. It is a social construct, just like letterform proportions and book margin ratios. In this sense, it is as bullshity as Durer’s roman capital construction diagrams.
But when you have a ton of people repeating it over a long time, it can get embedded into the collective aesthetic consciousness and enforced by trade practices. Then posterior rationalization kicks in.