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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A great insight into the philosophy of artBy Pen NameA great insight into the philosophy of art; beauty and aesthetics.This book investigates beauty with a multifaceted approach - well; six-faceted like the name suggests.Each of these 6 perspectives is a different cultures take on the idea of beauty; and each of them seems - on first glance - to be wildly different than the last. The book doesnt spell out the connection for you; and I missed it myself until it was pointed out to me; that the idea is that the CORE of beauty may be more unified than we realize; with many different facets and elements to it. In other words; the book does a good job of showing how different cultures perceive beauty and how; while these views seem different; they may have common trends that unify us all.27 of 40 people found the following review helpful. Be sure to browse before you buyBy Bob FancherYou may find this to your liking; but I wish I hadnt wasted my money. I tried for a couple of hours to get into this; but I simply could not read it.Not that its hard to understand. Quite the contrary. But I found it precious; affected; and silly. Not to mention self-indulgent. Other than that; though . . .Sartwell defines beauty as "the object of longing." He tells us he is "less concerned to defend that as a definition than to use it as a basis for trying to find something common to certain kinds of human experiences and relations to things." Since we long for many things that are not beautiful; and commonalities between experiences and objects of longing may therefore have little to do with beauty; I find this approach less than promising.And indeed; Sartwell stretches the idea of beauty beyond any normal meaning; and he makes it useless as a category of discernment. For instance; Picassos Guernica is not-and is not supposed to be-beautiful. Its a horror; and in its horror lies its grandeur-its supposed to horrify us. To call it beautiful because it illustrates the satisfaction of the longing for power is to corrupt the term "beauty" and miss the point of the artwork.As for the self-indulgence; Sartwell has merely collected snippets of his reflections. He says this is "a book of moments; and can be dipped into rather than read straight through; though I also hope that the accumulation of moments displays a kind of structure that could yield a coherent set of experiences." Well; if you invite someone to dip into your moments; youd better be a genius; if they are to find such visits worthwhile. Sartwell isnt. One wonders whether he didnt bother to use his many moments to generate a coherent set of thoughts because that task was beyond him; or because he just couldnt be bothered. Either way; Sartwells belief that his fragments of reflection are worth our while betrays a self-confidence that the twenty-five pages or so I pondered do not justify.And frankly; you have to puzzle over the perceptiveness of anyone anyone who refers to "the beauty of Jennifer Lopez" as "the skinniest common denominator of nubile beauty."10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. A Worthy Little BookBy SlowdownLovely and enjoyable and illuminating book; with chapters on six different names and conceptions of beauty.However; to experience its merits you must clear away some obstacles. This is not a scholarly book; so do not expect it to be one or you will see only its faults. It is not even a collection of essays. The book is written in a very personal voice; and it is more conversational than anything else; with the stance and tone changing the way it might in a conversation. Sartwell also writes in a more unrestrained way than most; and although the two are quite different in other respects; in this he reminds me of the critic David Hickey.The rewards of this book are not meager. Sartwell talks us through Greek; Hebrew; Sanskrit; Japanese; Navajo; and English names for beauty. His running commentary is full of surprising connections and juxtapositions; often taken from his own life. Although he differentiates the different approaches to beauty; his own mind is strongly synthetic; and there is an underlying conviction; supported in his examples; that these different beauties are all active in our experience in some way. This is one significant difference between contemporary scholarship; in which magnifying differences is a primary (and sometimes sole) merit; and Sartwells writing; which differentiates in order to magnify relatively neglected and diminutive dimensions of (at least potentially) common experience.The upshot was that Sartwell actually helped me to differentiate some aspects of beauty that I had conflated--and to enjoy them more.