～Roger Scruton, philosopher & writer
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Why Beauty Matters by Roger Scruton, BBC documentary (2009).
*Thank you my dearest Leanne (里杏姊姊♥) ever so much for sending this to me...
Tuesday 27 December 2011
Beauty Matters
"I think that we are losing beauty, and there is a danger that with it, we will lose the meaning of life."
～Roger Scruton, philosopher & writer
*A micro-website compiled by the National History Museum in Taipei on Yu Youren.
Why Beauty Matters by Roger Scruton, BBC documentary (2009).
*Thank you my dearest Leanne (里杏姊姊♥) ever so much for sending this to me...
～Roger Scruton, philosopher & writer
Why Beauty Matters by Roger Scruton, BBC documentary (2009).
*Thank you my dearest Leanne (里杏姊姊♥) ever so much for sending this to me...
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You picked out the best quote and put this post up so beautifully--LOVE it!!!!! xoxoxox
Did you read Elain Scary's book on beauty?
"...our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society. Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions. With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness." In so doing, it takes the individual away from the center of his or her self-preoccupation and thus prompts a distribution of attention outward toward others and, ultimately, she contends, toward ethical fairness. Scarry, [...] offers us here philosophical critique written with clarity and conviction as well as a passionate plea that we change the way we think about beauty."
--On Elaine Scarry's 'On Beauty and Being Just'
"Among a restorer's solvents, imagine one so marvelous that what it repaired, what it returned to sparkling freshness, was not some beautiful object, but our damaged perception of Beauty itself. Elaine Scarry's imagination works just this wonder: potent enough to dissolve our every grimy resentment, yet so delicate that in Beauty's renewed radiance we discern, long invisible, the subtle outline of an ethics."
--Review from D. A. Miller (Columbia Univ), also on Scarry's book
“This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.”
―-Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
"Beauty and the decorative have been excluded from art for 30 years or more because there’s been a predominance of the conceptual over the visual. I hope to restore that tradition to some degree and reclaim it."
~Lisa Creagh
"The story of the world begins with a garden. This idea of throwing down an instant garden in a desert seemed to encapsulate everything I have felt about the relationship between humans and nature: our incredible creative ability to manipulate and magic nature out of nothing. [...] (Dutch flower paintings and Arabic carpets) Both traditions lead eyes and minds into a willingness in the name of pleasure, to abandon logic and imagine the fronds of flower stems writhing in an eerie blue pool of perfumed flowers or the exquisitely soft daylight falling on an impossibly abundant bouquet. [...] I have always felt profoundly moved by the myth of Paradise, where ‘nature’ the all-encompassing garden is lost through our desire to know more of its secrets."
~Lisa Creagh
"In Persia, carpets were thrown down in the desert by Nomadic tribes to create ‘instant gardens’. The Instant Garden is an ambitious photographic project, combining the stylised patterns of traditional decorative traditions with the visual language of still life to create highly illusionistic ‘gardens’. Mixing the languages of Persian geometry and Dutch Flower Painting traditions, the work combines the ‘hand-made’ elements of traditional decorative arts with techniques of digital manipulation and construction." (L. Creagh)
*Artist statement:
http://www.theimagefile.com/web/lisacreagh/statement.html
"(In twenty years the poem will be music)
For a time held wide enough open
We were the palm trees near the beach
Whose edges are ragged and not yet
Betrayed. And then there is
The compound poem, what happens when
The simple and complex meet
In the middle distance of live feeds,
A wind in the palms. Totally at last
The present is all talking parts."
--from 'Suleiman', by Geoffrey G. O’Brien
http://www.thethepoetry.com/2011/07/poem-of-the-week-geoffrey-obrien/
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