An edition of Notes on the need for beauty (2007)

Notes on the need for beauty

an intimate look at an essential quality

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An edition of Notes on the need for beauty (2007)

Notes on the need for beauty

an intimate look at an essential quality

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The introduction of this book reads, "Beauty, like every other quality -- courage, fear, ugliness, trust, truth, wisdom -- is a part of us and apart from us, inside us and outside us, personal and impersonal. Beauty invites us to build bridges and make connections between the senses and the soul, between contemplation and expression, between ourselves and the world." In this wide-ranging and deeply felt book, artist and writer J. Ruth Gendler invites us to reclaim and celebrate the often misunderstood quality of beauty as one of the most profound and essential forces in our lives. Drawing upon observations from art and mythology, science and nature, contemporary culture and personal experience, the author looks at her subject in its most generous implications -- not simply as a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway to wholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love. Written with curiosity, courage, a discerning eye and a lyrical sensibility, and illustrated with evocative line drawings by the author, Notes on the Need for Beauty displays the strong personal voice that has made her previous book, The Book of Qualities so beloved. It is a work to savor and to share.

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Marlowe & Co.
Language
English
Pages
240

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Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential Quality
April 5, 2007, Marlowe & Company
Paperback in English
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New York

Table of Contents

Invitation to beauty
Aphrodite's gift
Kinds of light/kind darkness
Mirrors and windows
Beauty secrets, love stories
Beauty and other forbidden qualities
Faces and masks
Rags and threads, wraps, and shawls
Bone, breath, and language : in praise of the body
Cups, bowls, and baskets

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Classifications

Library of Congress
BH39 .G453 2007, BH39.G453 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
240 p. :
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17220025M
Internet Archive
notesonneedforbe00gend
ISBN 10
1569242925
ISBN 13
9781569242926
LCCN
2006100103
Library Thing
3233337
Goodreads
1091375

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