Beauty Looks After Herself
Beauty Looks After Herself by Eric Gill, published by Sophia Perennis in 2012, presents a collection of essays that delve into the intersections of art, philosophy, and aesthetics. Spanning 278 pages, this edition explores Gill’s perspective on the impact of industrialism and modernity on the perception of beauty and the real. Through his writings, Gill advocates for a return to a deeper understanding of beauty, urging readers to recognize the transcendental aspects of art and life that have been overlooked in contemporary society.
In this thought-provoking work, readers will encounter Gill’s reflections on various subjects, including architecture, stone-carving, and the philosophies surrounding art. The essays articulate a vision where every individual is seen as an artist, contributing to the richness of everyday life. By addressing themes of nihilism and the search for substantive meaning, Gill’s insights encourage a reevaluation of how beauty and truth coexist in our world. This edition serves as a significant contribution to discussions on art and its role in shaping human experience.
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As Catherine Pickstock so forcefully demonstrates in her brilliant introduction to this new publication of Beauty Looks After Herself, for 600 or more years, the Real has been progressively stripped of transcendental content, so that today an “unbearable lightness of being” presents us with the terrible spectacle of numberless possibilities evacuated of all substantive content. A middlebrow landscape of normal nihilism surrounds us at every turn.
Eric Gill saw through our dilemma long ago. Here, in essays on industrialism, architecture, stone-carving, lettering, clothes, philosophies of art, and much else, Gill emerges as the unabashed proponent of “every man an artist” – “every man as the crafter of the liturgy of the ordinary,” as Pickstock so aptly puts it. In these essays is issued a call for the recovery of the Real in all its glory, especially the transcendental of Beauty, in which Truth and Goodness coinhere – a call to return to the Real once again its rightful and actual plenitude.
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