Timeless Beauty
In the Arts and Everyday Life
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 them--countless numbers of them--beauty 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 tha…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-903998-33-5
- EAN: 9781903998335
- Produktnummer: 9922151
- Verlag: Green Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.5 cm 424 g
- Auflage: 1st
- Abbildungen: 16pp duotone plates
- Gewicht: 424
Über den Autor
John Lane is a painter, writer and educationalist. Born in 1930, he was Chairman of the Dartington Hall Trust, founding direct of the Beaford Arts centre and instrumental in the creation of Schumacher College. His previous books include The Living Tree: Art and the Sacred, Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society, Timeless Beauty in the Arts and Everyday Life and The Spirit of Silence: Making Space for Creativity. He lives in North Devon with his wife Truda.
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