Word: sensuousness
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...finding this error in John Locke, whose 17th Century philosophy contained the premises of Jeffersonian democracy, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The error consisted in the theory that "physical substances" (space, planets, flowers) are definable only in Newtonian terms (extension, mass, volume), thus have no sensuous qualities (depth, heat, fragrance) but are supplied with them by the "mental substance" of the observer...
...know this, Professor Northrop says, is the wisdom of the Orient; and in the great religions of the East, most purely in Buddhism, it has been cultivated through thousands of years as the ultimate reality. In the West, even artists were rarely content to render the sensuous world-the esthetic component-for its own sake until 19th Century Impressionism. Yet if all devotees of the theoretic component-Anglo-Americans in particular-can learn the religious value of direct experience, fanaticism and confusion would cease...
This would mean, for one thing, that the arts would gain greater importance than the West has ever given them. Professor Northrop holds that the sensuous and passionate art of Mexico's Orozco, the sensuous and tranquil art of Georgia O'Keeffe, are essential insights into the nature of things-as are Chinese paintings...
...powerful and immensely influential abstractions are well represented by some eight oils; this reviewer particularly liked the striking "Still Life on a Table," the sensuous and flowing "The Mirror," and the austere, powerful "Bather Standing...
Imitations of the authentic French originals sprang up in England like dubious mushrooms- gutter lovers, Beau Brummels, professional sensualists, practical jokers, drug fiends. Mildest, most influential apostle of the new, sensuous estheticism was Oxford's Walter Pater. As a child, he had loved to don a surplice and "preach sermons to his admiring Aunt Betty." As a youth, he had avoided horse play ("I do not seem to want a black eye"). As a professor, he coined a famed phrase when he solemnly urged his students "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most...