Primo Levi in the Periodic Table: “There have been centuries in which ‘beauty’ was identified with adornment, the superimposed, the frills; but it is probable that they were deviant epochs and that the true beauty, in which every century recognizes itself, is found in upright stones, ships’ hulls, the blade of an ax, the wing of a plane.” From the new monograph on Deborah Berke. [via link]

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~ by Errant Aesthete on 10/20/08.

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