'The capacity to endure and enjoy feeling at high tension is somewhat rare. The title of Chloé Cooper Jones’s first book EASY BEAUTY (288 pp. Difficult beauty also required us to stay in a state of 'high tension of feeling,' and it is our own weakness - the 'weakness of the spectators,' says Bosanquet, taking the phrase from Aristotle - that causes us to shrink from the challenge of difficult beauty. Her work has appeared in publications including GQ, The Verge, VICE, Bookforum, New York magazine, and The Believer, and has been selected for both The Best American Travel Writing and The. The intricacy of a difficult aesthetic object can provoke resentment and disgust in us if we are unable to resolve and classify the complex elements of the object. Chlo Cooper Jones (Easy Beauty) joins Jordan to talk about avoiding mandates, about writing through pain and trauma, and about finding the neutral room in. Chlo Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor and freelance journalist who was a finalist for a 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. In difficult beauty, one often encourages intricacy, tension, and width. She is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Our ability to appreciate difficult beauty depended on our education, insights endurance, and our capacity or attention. Chloe Cooper Jones is a philosophy professor and journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. a one a youthful face, or the human form in its prime, all these afford a plain straightforward pleasure.'Ĭonversely, difficult beauty, wrote Bosanquet required more time, patience, and a higher amount of concentration. Wynter K Miller: One of the theses underlying Easy Beauty is the belief that proximity to beauty can be transformative for the individual. “Easy beauty was apparent and unchallenging: 'A simple tune a simple spatial rhythm. Chloé Cooper Jones and I connected via Zoom to talk about beauty, transformation, and the art of being fully presentall timeless topics covered thoughtfully in Easy Beauty.

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