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On beauty

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: (Eranos lectures: 6)Dallas, TX Spring Publications 1st Spring Pubs. printing 1987Description: 73p.; bibliog. refsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0882144065
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BH39 .O5 1987
Contents:
Herbert Read - Beauty and the beast. A. Hilary Armstrong - The divine enhancement of earthly beauties; the Hellenic and Platonic tradition
Abstract: '...Read...gives new meanings to the basic concepts of the beautiful and the ugly....[and] moves into psychoanalysis, illuminating especially the nature of ugliness....Armstrong is the leading scholar and proponent of Neoplatonism in the English language....Beauty is not so much an aesthetic appreciation as it is a tremendous power.'
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'"Beauty and the beast" was...presented originally at the 1961 Eranos Conference in Ascona, Switzerland and appeared in the Eranos Yearbook 30-1961, pp. 175-210. "The divine enhancement...: was...presented originally at the 1984 Eranos Conference in Ascona, Switzerland and appeared in the Eranos Yearbook 53-1984, pp. 49-81.'

Herbert Read - Beauty and the beast. A. Hilary Armstrong - The divine enhancement of earthly beauties; the Hellenic and Platonic tradition

'...Read...gives new meanings to the basic concepts of the beautiful and the ugly....[and] moves into psychoanalysis, illuminating especially the nature of ugliness....Armstrong is the leading scholar and proponent of Neoplatonism in the English language....Beauty is not so much an aesthetic appreciation as it is a tremendous power.'

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