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Every man an artist : readings in the traditional philosophy of art

"This anthology proves that it is the human norm for all people to participate in meaningful and purposeful art, craft, and work because this is part of human nature itself."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
World Wisdom, Bloomington, IN, ©2005
Aufsatzsammlung
xxii, 253 pages ; 23 cm.
9780941532716, 0941532712
60491954
Intimations
Formulations
Reverberations. I. Intimations : 1. Plato
2. Aristotle
3. Plotinus
4. The Holy Bible
5. Corpus Hermeticum
6. Dionysius the Areopagite
7. Eriugena
8. St. John of Damascus
9. St.Theodore the Studite
10. St.Thomas Aquinas
11. St.Bonaventure
II. Formulations : 12. Initiation and the crafts / René Guénon
13. The arts and their traditional conception / René Guénon
14. A figure of speech or a figure of thought? / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
15. The Christian and Oriental, or true, philosophy of art / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
16. Principles and criteria of art / Frithjof Schuon
17. The general problem / John Howard Benson and Arthur Graham Carey
18. The four causes / Eric Gill
19. Of beauty / Eric Gill
20. The Decadence and the Renewal of Christian Art / Titus Burckhardt
III. Reverberations : 21. Art and sacrament / David Jones
22. The vertical dimension / Kathleen Raine
23. Two economies / Wendell Berry
24. Why does art today lack inspiration? / Cecil Collins
25. Integration / Bernard Leach
26. On pottery and potting / Michael Cardew
27. Formal penmanship defined by the thing / Edward Johnston
28. Towards the Musica Perennis / Sir John Tavener