An Object of Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Object of Beauty write by Steve Martin. This book was released on 2010-11-23. An Object of Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.
The Beauty of Everyday Things
The Beauty of Everyday Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beauty of Everyday Things write by Soetsu Yanagi. This book was released on 2019-01-31. The Beauty of Everyday Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings. These objects are our constant companions in life. As such, writes Soetsu Yanagi, they should be made with care and built to last, treated with respect and even affection. They should be natural and simple, sturdy and safe - the aesthetic result of wholeheartedly fulfilling utilitarian needs. They should, in short, be things of beauty. In an age of feeble and ugly machine-made things, these essays call for us to deepen and transform our relationship with the objects that surround us. Inspired by the work of the simple, humble craftsmen Yanagi encountered during his lifelong travels through Japan and Korea, they are an earnest defence of modest, honest, handcrafted things - from traditional teacups to jars to cloth and paper. Objects like these exemplify the enduring appeal of simplicity and function: the beauty of everyday things.
Only a Promise of Happiness
Only a Promise of Happiness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Only a Promise of Happiness write by Alexander Nehamas. This book was released on 2007. Only a Promise of Happiness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In Only a Promise of Happiness, Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its place in art, to reestablish the connections among art, beauty, and desire, and to show that the values of art, independently of their moral worth, are equally crucial to the rest of life. Nehamas makes his case with characteristic grace, sensitivity, and philosophical depth, supporting his arguments with searching studies of art and literature, high and low, from Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Manet's Olympia to television. Throughout, the discussion of artworks is generously illustrated. Beauty, Nehamas concludes, may depend on appearance, but this does not make it superficial. The perception of beauty manifests a hope that life would be better if the object of beauty were part of it. This hope can shape and direct our lives for better or worse. We may discover misery in pursuit of beauty, or find that beauty offers no more than a tantalizing promise of happiness. But if beauty is always dangerous, it is also a pressing human concern that we must seek to understand, and not suppress.
Uncontrollable Beauty
Uncontrollable Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncontrollable Beauty write by David Shapiro. This book was released on 2001-10-01. Uncontrollable Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beauty: A Very Short Introduction write by Roger Scruton. This book was released on 2011-03-24. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a book that is itself beautifully written, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores this timeless concept, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful.--From publisher description.
