{"product_id":"notes-on-the-need-for-beauty-an-intimate-look-at-an-essential-quality-9781569242926","title":"Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality","description":"The introduction of this book reads, \"Beauty, like every other quality -- courage, fear, ugliness, trust, truth, wisdom -- is a part of us and apart from us, inside us and outside us, personal and impersonal. Beauty invites us to build bridges and make connections between the senses and the soul, between contemplation and expression, between ourselves and the world.\" In this wide-ranging and deeply felt book, artist and writer J. Ruth Gendler invites us to reclaim and celebrate the often misunderstood quality of beauty as one of the most profound and essential forces in our lives. Drawing upon observations from art and mythology, science and nature, contemporary culture and personal experience, the author looks at her subject in its most generous implications -- not simply as a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway to wholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love. Written with curiosity, courage, a discerning eye and a lyrical sensibility, and illustrated with evocative line drawings by the author, \u003ci\u003eNotes on the Need for Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e displays the strong personal voice that has made her previous book, \u003ci\u003e The Book of Qualities\u003c\/i\u003e so beloved. It is a work to savor and to share.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo Lifelong Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781569242926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.60w x 0.78d","brand":"J. Ruth Gendler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403418267829,"sku":"9781569242926","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_94b4277f-ac93-4e75-b475-331b48ab10ce.jpg?v=1774969171","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/notes-on-the-need-for-beauty-an-intimate-look-at-an-essential-quality-9781569242926","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}