Perhaps the beautiful is that appearance of the sublime before the
latter transforms into something disgusting or horrific....
Henry
> The Rilke quote - Perhaps it is a reference to that sense of awe
> when an artist penetrates the Platonic veils to behold Beauty (the
> just, the beautiful, the good) and then realises that soon he must
> be transported back to the mundane ...where this that is beautiful
> disappears and only the struggle of the artist remains, a Sisyphean
> task.
> avy
> gyoungblood wrote:
>> Prof. Shaw,
>> I am struck by the Rilke quote but somewhat baffled about its
>> meaning. Why is beauty the beginning of any kind of terror,
>> bearable or otherwise?
>>
>> Perhaps my difficulty comes from a certain understanding of
>> "beauty," expressed by John Cage: "Art begins where beauty ends."
>>
>> This can mean either (a) that art must always redefine beauty, or
>> (b) that beauty isn't the point of art, or (c) both. In any case,
>> it seems to me that art, not beauty, is the real source of terror
>> bearable or unbearable.
>>
>> What are your thoughts?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaw, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Subject: Re: trivial stuff / iconic moments
>>
>>
>> This is infectious:
>>
>> Slim Pickens riding the back of the nuclear bomb at the end of Dr.
>> Strangelove...
>>
>> James Mason seeing Sue Lyon sunning herself in her bikini and
>> heart shaped sunglasses in Lolita...
>>
>> Little Alex coming back to himself as the Prime Minister brings
>> him the huge stereo at the end of Clockwork Orange ("I was cured
>> alright")
>>
>>
>>
>> "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear,
>> and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to
>> destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
>>
>> Daniel Shaw
>> Professor of Philosophy and Film
>> Lock Haven University
>> Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
>> website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
>>
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