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My quest for beauty / Rollo May.
LIBRA N71 .M29 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- May, Rollo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Psychology.
- Art.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Saybrook ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Norton, [1985]
- Summary:
- In this elegant and revealing aesthetic memoir, noted psychologist Rollo May describes his own discovery of the "redemptive power of beauty" and explains why we must understand and value beauty if we are to revitalize the human world. Drawings and 16 full-color paintings.
- Contents:
- 1 Poppies in Greece 3
- 2 Beauty Has Kept Me Alive 17
- What is Beauty? 20
- Beauty as Harmony 27
- Schiller's Thoughts on Beauty 30
- 3 Visit to the Holy Mountain 37
- 4 Beauty and Death 67
- 5 We Are of Argyros 79
- The Forced Migration 83
- Heroes and Heroism 93
- 6 A City Set on A Hill 103
- A Marriage Banquet in Larissa 105
- The Country One Loves 111
- Life and Death in a Monastery 118
- 7 Paintings by the Author 129
- 8 The Creative Mind 135
- Transforming One's Self 144
- 9 Art and Symbols 151
- Symbols and Evil 157
- Symbols and the Artist 161
- To Disguise and to Reveal 163
- Films as Art and Symbol 168
- Symbols and Civilization 169
- 10 Myth as an Art Form 175
- 11 Modern Art and the Future 187
- 12 Ecstasy and Violence 203
- Ecstasy and Self-Transcendence 209
- Art as an Antidote for Violence 215
- 13 Beauty, Our Universal Language 221
- One Buys a Violet 226
- Beauty and Literature 230
- Will Beauty Save the World? 234
- The Quality of Life 238.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0933071019 :
- OCLC:
- 12262803
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