Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality

by J. Ruth Gendler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569242925
• ISBN13: 9781569242926
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.2"