The Arts of the Beautiful MexicoWith his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake." By distinguishing between aesthetics, which promotes art as a form of knowledge, and philosophy, which focuses on the presence of the With his usual lucidity, Etienne Gilson addresses the idea that "art is the making of beauty for beauty's own sake." By distinguishing between aesthetics, which promotes art as a form of knowledge, and
as well as vivid characters (
but very much alive in the memory of the current family
as it goes along
" categorizing man's intellectual follies
Now that's a theme for a modern writer
as well as the older
Punctuating the Liam stories are other haunting tales from McLaughlin's universe
Ishmael Reed's classic Neo-HooDoo Western
blending social realism with lush modernist experiment
an emotional tug-of-war
Elizabeth Heighway holds a BA in Philosophy and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and an MA in Translation Studies from the University of Birmingham
and fantastically inventive brushes with some of the greatest characters of all time