Once people were instinctively tuned to the beautiful. In those distant days before the advent of the motor car and the washing machine, the electric toothbrush and the wheel, craftsmen and musicians, masons and poets, painters and dancers simply did t kw how to make an ugly thing; they could t close their hearts to the light of heaven. For them--countless numbers of them--beauty was as necessary as the air they breathed. It gave dignity and meaning to drab and impoverished lives, and inspired great (but often brutal) civilizations in which people lived creative and useful lives. Beauty is the urishment of the soul. It is something that gives us dignity as a species. John Lane calls us to awaken to the possibilities of a culture that recognizes the importance of beauty, and to ackwledge that we are only fully human in contact with the beautiful.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Green Books
ISBN-10
1903998336
ISBN-13
9781903998335
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96537019
Dimensions
Weight
422g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Totnes
Spine
14mm
Content Note
16pp Duotone Plates
Author Biography
John Lane (1930 - 2012) was a painter, writer and educationalist. He was Chairman of the Dartington Hall Trust, founding direct of the Beaford Arts centre and instrumental in the creation of Schumacher College. His books include The Living Tree: Art and the Sacred, Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society, Timeless Beauty in the Arts and Everyday Life and The Spirit of Silence: Making Space for Creativity. He lived in Devon for over 40 years.
