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Timeless Beauty
Timeless Beauty
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Published:
23 October, 2003
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Once people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the motor car and the washing machine, the electric toothbrush and the wheel, craftsmen and musicians, masons and poets, painters and dancers simply did not know how to make an ugly thing; they could not close their hearts to the light of heaven. For themcountless numbers of thembeauty was as necessary as the air they breathed. It gave dignity and meaning to drab and impoverished lives, and inspired great (but often brutal) civilizations in which people lived creative and useful lives. Beauty is the nourishment of the soul. It is something that gives us dignity as a species. John Lane calls us to awaken to the possibilities of a culture that recognizes the importance of beauty, and to acknowledge that we are only fully human in contact with the beautiful.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781903998335 |
| ISBN10 | 1903998336 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 422 g |
| Product Dimensions | 156 x 234 x 14 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Green Books |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
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I see this courageous book as a sign marking the beginning of the end of the tide of materialism that has prevailed for the last century. It meets a deep and as yet scarcely recognised need. . . . We disregard and undervalue the beautiful at our peril * Kathleen Raine *