Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality - Softcover

Gendler, J. Ruth

 
9781569242926: Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality

Synopsis

In the vein of A Natural History of the Senses, the author of the beloved The Book of Qualities (200,000 sold) pays homage-freshly, uniquely, urgently-to beauty, human creativity, and the majesty of the natural world

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About the Author

J. Ruth Gendler is an artist, writer, and teacher. She is the author of The Book of Qualities and the editor of Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day.The Book of Qualities, now in its thirty-fifth printing, has been adapted as a two-act theatre piece and translated into German, Japanese, and Chinese, as well as being widely excerpted in literary, psychological and educational publications. In addition to personal essays and poems, Gendler writes about the arts, education, health, and books. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally.Gendler has taught writing and art in a variety of settings for twenty years. She has been an artist in residence with both California Poets in the Schools and Young Audiences of the Bay Area and leads writing and creativity workshops nationally. She received her B.A. in English and Communications from Stanford University, and she now resides in Berkeley, California.

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