Description: As well as throwing new light on the author's own creative achievement, Secrets of Beauty is a vital contribution to aesthetic theory.
Review Quotes: Cocteau was as much attuned to chthonic or perverse energies as André Breton and crew. He just reached the depths with a lightness, discipline, and "hygiene" that (as with Wilde or Warhol) don't preclude profundity.--Brian Dillon "4columns"