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This book is another fun and anecdote heavy travelogue that zips through art history and aesthetics. If you want to read a fun jaunt through world wide conceptions of beauty, then this is the book for you. (Also check out The Accidental Masterpiece.)But that isnt what I expected or wanted. The book advertised itself as a rigorous comparison of worldwide conceptions of beauty, specifically the beauty described by six words: English beauty, Greek kalon, Japanese wabi-sabi, Hebrew yapha, Navajo hozho, and Sanskrit sundara.Sounds great, right?But it isnt. Again, its a travelogue throughout the authors various aesthetic experience. The author has a fondness for purity and simplicity, which is ok, except he applies that throughout the book, which makes me question his sincerity in translating and interpreting the various foreign words. Also, his take on the definition of beauty is retrograde and Puritan, and that made me question his intellectual sincerity.But its a fun read. Just dont expect a serious discussion of aesthetics. Expect an art travelogue and youll have a good time.___________________________________________________________________________Dont read past here. These are notes I was taking as I was reading the book, and I doubt theyre interesting to anyone except for me.So far the book is off to a bad start. Sartwell defines beauty as the object of longing. But thats obviously not true. Longing implies, as he says, desire, and its not desire or longing I feel when I say a sunset is beautiful, or (typically) a song, or even a woman (which he says Western beauty is often about - and I agree).I can look or listen or read or experience beauty without longing and without desire (as it is typically defined). Beauty can be an end in and of itself. Beauty can be the pleasurable thing without an object beyond itself, and without longing and without desire. There are plenty of times when the beautiful thing left me feeling content or happy or whole or awed, but not full of longing or desire, so his definition is a little too narrow for the common definition of beauty._______________I couldnt disagree with this guy more.He brings up the hoary separation of sublime from beauty, casting the stereotypical claim that beauty is light and frivolous and is only connected with (weak and obsolete) pleasures. He brings up mountains and storms and volcanoes as things that cant be beautiful, just as any art since 1895 cant be beautiful. See, a Picasso, a Pollack, a Warhol isnt beautiful - its sublime.Bullshit. I can and do say that Texas Chainsaw Massacre is beautiful. Same with Guernica. Same with songs from Naked City, Boredoms, The Slits, Xenaxis, Legeti, and Jazz Composers Orchestra.He also talks about souls being beautiful, to which I say, bullshit. Jesus is his example, and yes, the character of Jesus is fascinating but beautiful? Few people I know would say that. Few people would call characters beautiful. A created character is rarely called beautiful, even though it should probably be so. Now Jesus words are a different story. They are wildly beautiful, as are the ideas behind them. But all of that is different from a soul. When people say someone has a beautiful soul, they usually mean that they do amazing things, which is a far cry from saying that something in the world is beautiful. That is, actions can be beautiful, but usually actions are beautiful because of their astounding nature. Even so, a sports play can be beautiful, but usually because it takes the breath away - it seems impossible - it exceeds the boundaries of what is done and what can be done. But giving money to a poor child is NOT beautiful, nor is giving to philanthropy. In fact, I think most of the time the reference of a beautiful soul is often a separate use of the word beauty that is analogous to nice or moral. People who say that are using beauty as a metaphor. Theyre actually imagining some corporeal soul that, if it could be seen, would be awe-inspiring and astounding and beautiful. But its a far cry from the typical use of the word, which suggests that someone is obsessed with some thing, regardless of its a face, a person, a song, a book, a painting, or some athletes performance.At one point Sartwell says that the language of pleasure and pain doesnt do justice to the intense experiences people have, from sex to eating spicy food, and there is truth to that, but the word beauty has traditionally encompassed those diverse experiences. It is only the philosophical definitions of the word that is laking, not the word itself. Most rarely use the word beauty for a meal or sex; it is reserved for extreme experiences that can not be shaken. It is reserved for INTENSE sex or a meal that you know you will never forget. Simple pleasure is not part of the word in relation to sex and food. The word DOES encompass basic boring pleasure (a flower is beautiful) but it typically encompasses an intensity of emotion that escapes pleasure and almost everything else (that was fucking beautiful! its all Ive been able to think about!). Basically, I dont think the notion of the sublime is needed. Earlier Romantic paintings were considered sublime, but they are now simply pleasurable. Same with Impressionism. And its true for Picasso and Pollack. Very few of their painting have the intense impact they had when they were unveiled. The sublime is merely describing a specific aspect of the word beauty. Its describing the overpowering emotions that form an obsession from the person feeling beauty to the thing or event that inspired it. Beauty, in this sense, implies not longing or desire, but love. That is, an overwhelming feeling that is brought about by engaging with the thing-that-is-beautiful. Beauty is subjective, even though it is in response to something in the world. If that is so, than the sublime is not necessary. If that is so, then we can describe punk as beautiful, or horror movies as beautiful, or aggressive avant-jazz as beautiful, and THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE DO. Theres no reason to say, That was sublime! We can and do say, That was beautiful! And everyone understands what is meant when someone says that something ugly and intense was beautiful._______________P.44-5Longing as a condition of the universe.Really?The universe longs for itself thought us, in us.What? Seriously?? So the universe is conscious? Is it kinda like Galactus?We could find in a return to... beauty a purification of ourselves as people capable of experiencing such things; it is a very innocent experience, fundamentally decent.Youve got to be kidding. So... wanting to re-experience beauty makes us pure. In the sense that we want to re-experience beauty. Yeaaaah._______________Hope diamond, fireworksUnfortunately he couples desire with longing, and longing with beauty. Unfortunately, that opening section on his version of the Western conception of beauty carries on throughout the following sections. Unfortunately, his conception of beauty is a hoary ideal that, as I said, couples desire with longing, and longing with beauty. Its an old, and dumb idea; an outdated idea that misses the vast common use of the word beauty; an outdated idea that casts beauty in the realm of the effete; an outdated idea that brings back discredited dualisms, in this case with the rough and hyper-masculine sublime as a ready (and Puritan) replacement for Rocco (and superfluous) beauty._______________Odd... he talks about Protestantisms desire for a spiritual aesthetic of minimalism. Does he not see that he is very much a part of that aesthetic?He ends the chapter titled after the Indian/Hindu word for beauty with a long discussion of Shaker art, which is diametrically opposed to most Hindu art. Its a cool comparison. But I wonder if its true. I know nothing about the last few words, but distrust the author after his depiction of beauty.All this talk about simplicity and clarity. Yawn.His true analytical nature comes out with a belief in Platonic Forms. Seriously??I like the part about light gives rise to ontologies which give rise to ways of living. Awesome.He sees longing in everything._______________And the end, our conceptions of beauty arent so different, but he has to limit the Western conception in order to falsely expand it by exposing it to foreign conceptions of beauty. Its not a technique I like. The foreign conceptions of beauty should be interesting on their own, without limiting our own Western conception of beauty.
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