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Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it's also in the language we use and everywhere in the world around us. In this elegant, witty, and ultimately profound meditation on what is beautiful, Crispin Sartwell begins with six words from six different cultures - ancient Greek's 'to kalon', the Japanese idea of 'wabi-sabi', Hebrew's 'yapha', the Navajo concept 'hozho', Sanskrit 'sundara', and our own English-language 'beauty'. Each word becomes a door onto another way of thinking about, and looking at, what is beautiful in the world, and in our lives. In Sartwell's hands these six names of beauty - and there could be thousands more - are revealed as simple and profound ideas about our world and our selves.
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Paperback: 182 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415979927
ISBN-13: 978-0415979924
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
4 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#248,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
A great insight into the philosophy of art, beauty and aesthetics.This book investigates beauty with a multifaceted approach - well, six-faceted like the name suggests.Each of these 6 perspectives is a different culture's take on the idea of beauty, and each of them seems - on first glance - to be wildly different than the last. The book doesn't spell out the connection for you, and I missed it myself until it was pointed out to me, that the idea is that the CORE of beauty may be more unified than we realize, with many different facets and elements to it. In other words, the book does a good job of showing how different cultures perceive beauty and how, while these views seem different, they may have common trends that unify us all.
You may find this to your liking, but I wish I hadn't wasted my money. I tried for a couple of hours to get into this, but I simply could not read it.Not that it's hard to understand. Quite the contrary. But I found it precious, affected, and silly. Not to mention self-indulgent. Other than that, though . . .Sartwell defines beauty as "the object of longing." He tells us he is "less concerned to defend that as a definition than to use it as a basis for trying to find something common to certain kinds of human experiences and relations to things." Since we long for many things that are not beautiful, and commonalities between experiences and objects of longing may therefore have little to do with beauty, I find this approach less than promising.And indeed, Sartwell stretches the idea of beauty beyond any normal meaning, and he makes it useless as a category of discernment. For instance, Picasso's Guernica is not-and is not supposed to be-beautiful. It's a horror, and in its horror lies its grandeur-it's supposed to horrify us. To call it beautiful because it illustrates the satisfaction of the longing for power is to corrupt the term "beauty" and miss the point of the artwork.As for the self-indulgence, Sartwell has merely collected snippets of his reflections. He says this is "a book of moments, and can be dipped into rather than read straight through, though I also hope that the accumulation of moments displays a kind of structure that could yield a coherent set of experiences." Well, if you invite someone to dip into your moments, you'd better be a genius, if they are to find such visits worthwhile. Sartwell isn't. One wonders whether he didn't bother to use his many moments to generate a coherent set of thoughts because that task was beyond him, or because he just couldn't be bothered. Either way, Sartwell's belief that his fragments of reflection are worth our while betrays a self-confidence that the twenty-five pages or so I pondered do not justify.And frankly, you have to puzzle over the perceptiveness of anyone anyone who refers to "the beauty of Jennifer Lopez" as "the skinniest common denominator of nubile beauty."
Lovely and enjoyable and illuminating book, with chapters on six different names and conceptions of beauty.However, to experience its merits you must clear away some obstacles. This is not a scholarly book, so do not expect it to be one or you will see only its faults. It is not even a collection of essays. The book is written in a very personal voice, and it is more conversational than anything else, with the stance and tone changing the way it might in a conversation. Sartwell also writes in a more unrestrained way than most, and although the two are quite different in other respects, in this he reminds me of the critic David Hickey.The rewards of this book are not meager. Sartwell talks us through Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Japanese, Navajo, and English names for beauty. His running commentary is full of surprising connections and juxtapositions, often taken from his own life. Although he differentiates the different approaches to beauty, his own mind is strongly synthetic, and there is an underlying conviction, supported in his examples, that these different beauties are all active in our experience in some way. This is one significant difference between contemporary scholarship, in which magnifying differences is a primary (and sometimes sole) merit, and Sartwell's writing, which differentiates in order to magnify relatively neglected and diminutive dimensions of (at least potentially) common experience.The upshot was that Sartwell actually helped me to differentiate some aspects of beauty that I had conflated--and to enjoy them more.
Impressive in so many ways: a clear focus that is simple yet profound and important. What a clear entry into a lively, elegant and learned discourse: six words in six languages and cultures for beauty. And what a delightful ride on a high-wire intellectural strand in Crispin Sartwell's facile and eclectic mind...it is a delight to share in his vast learning...and to be spoken to in crisp, contemporary language. The meaning of beauty is in our reaction to it, and the opportunity to share in Sartwell's reactions is an aesthetic holiday.
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