Timeless Beauty: In the Arts and Everyday Life

by John Lane and John Lane

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 not know how to make an ugly thing; they could not 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903998336
• ISBN13: 9781903998335
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Green Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"