Subj : Beauty and the Beast
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Tue Apr 20 2021 18:43:08

Ardith Hinton to Anton Shepelev:

AS>> This observation is most excellently demonstrated in
AS>> Clark Ashton Smith's prose poem "The Demon, the Angel,
AS>> and Beauty":
AS>>
AS>> http://eldritchdark.com/writings/
AS>> prose-poetry-plays/10/print

AH> I found it very interesting.

I was reminded of it this very Sunday in the State History
Museum, while exploring with my 20x loupe a 16th-century
print of Durer's "Melencholia I", on expositon from
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo. The angel and the putto are
both rather gloomy. They have failed to penetrate the secret
of Beauty in spite of all the instruments they have tried to
measure it, for Beauty is God or at least from God. It is a
Platonic ideal.

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