The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-interest -- as acute as Machiavelli yet as humanistic and scrupulously moral as Marcus Aurelius.
The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully yet responsibly in a society governed by self-inter...
A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects -the person you are or the one you ought to be.- It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its republication in 1992 turned this lost classic into a New York Times bestseller. Now Gracian, the Spanish Jesuit considered Machiavelli's better in strategy and insight, sets a...
A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects -the person you are or the one you ought to be.- It is a pocket mirror because its a...
Let us agree, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, that one of man s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian. In my Saint Sebastian I remember you, Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, . . . and sometimes I think he "is" you. Let s see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you. This exchange is but a glimpse into the complex relationship between two renowned and highly influential twentieth-century artists. On the centennial of Dali's birth, "Sebastian s Arrows" presents a never-before-published collection of their...
Let us agree, Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, that one of man s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian. In my Saint Sebastian I remember y...
Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on bourgeois life and abetted by her skeptical husband---a grain merchant---she bought twenty-eight acres of woodland on the Mississippi Sound. Beside a sleepy bayou, in the shade of towering pines and magnolias, she opened an art colony, one of the first of its kind in the South.
Backed by his mother's passion for art, her oldest son Peter Anderson founded Shearwater Pottery. Yearning -to make Shearwater synonymous with perfection, - he drew...
Almost a century ago, Annette McConnell Anderson, a New Orleans society woman, vowed that her three sons would become artists. Turning her back on ...
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jimenez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elements the wellsprings of any kind of creation are instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and regret.A treasure for poets and writers, "The Complete Perfectionist "includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer...
Few have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning te...