Title: Six names of beauty /
Authors: Sartwell, Crispin, 1958-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Aesthetics, Comparative.
Abstract: "In this 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. The earthy and the exalted, the imperfect and the ideal: things, spaces, high art, sounds, aromas, nothingness. Sartwell writes about scores of beautiful things - among them, a Japanese teapot and Diana Rigg as Mrs. Emma Peel, the pleasure in a well-used hammer and in pop music and in Vermeer's Girl in a Red Hat."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Beauty (English), the object of longing -- Yapha (Hebrew), glow, bloom -- Sundara (Sanskrit), holiness -- To Kalon (Greek), idea, ideal -- Wabi-Sabi (Japanese), humility, imperfection -- Hozho (Navajo), health, harmony.