Six names of beauty
By: Crispin Sartwell.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Aesthetics, Comparative.
Other titles: 6 names of beauty
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beauty (English) : the object of longing; title: Yapha (Hebrew) : glow, glitter, bloom; title: Sudara (Sanskrit) : holiness; title: To Kalon (Greek) : the idea, the ideal; title: Wabi-sabi (Japanese); title: Hozho (Navajo) : health and harmony.