A Body That’s All Surface

added by Mike Hobson and · updated 2mo ago

Real beauty has all kinds of deep shadows, it is not just bright flickers of color. Go and look at a Rodin sculpture and you will feel the gravity of beauty.
from Beauty by Andrew Sweeny
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Embodiment is at the very core of the work I do
from The Burnout Antidote by Anne Berube
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Her existence, like her beauty and real worth, was intrinsically aesthetic, not physical or emotional. Veronica would be most comfortable, I remain convinced, as a human exhibit, motionless in the cool bright corner of a public hall, surrounded by a square of red velvet no-touch ropes, hearing only whispered voices and heels on tile.
from The Broom of the System: A Novel by David Foster Wallace
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how do pursuit of beauty translate to being an object of beauty rather than the one perceiving?

from Beauty by Andrew Sweeny