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‘Instead of rectangular diagrams, Étienne Souriau, a French aesthetician of the mid-20th century, offered a wheel-shaped one. By means of this form, he showed how seven basic types of perceptible data (lines, volumes, colours, sounds, and so forth) were developed into complex arts. Using concentric circles, he showed how each type of datum developed into a non-representational and a representational art. Though no such diagram can offer a complete picture, Souriau presents a large number of interrelations, in a simple pattern.’*

*Ibid, [E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 14:]102

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