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*1300 $aStoria della bellezza .$lEngelska
*24510$aHistory of beauty  /$c[texts written by Umberto Eco and Girolama De Michele] ; edited by Umberto Eco ; translated  by Alastair McEwen
*24613$aOn beauty
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*260  $aNew York ;$a2005 :$bRizzoli ,$c2005
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*500  $aBoken bygger på en CD-rom med titel: Bellezza : storia di un'idea dell'occidente, 2002
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*650 4$ahistoria
*650 4$aKonstestetik
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*650 4$aSkönhetsideal i konsten
*650 4$aSkönhetsideal i litteraturen
*650 4$aAesthetics.
*650 4$aArt
*650 4$aPhilosophy.
*650 4$aBeauty, Personal.
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*697  $cEstetik: historia
*697  $cAllmän kulturhistoria
*697  $cKonstteori och konstestetik
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Now in paperback, Umberto Eco's groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy's finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture. The profound and subtle text is lavishly illustrated with abundant examples of sublime painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. This is the first paperback edition of History of Beauty , making this intellectual and philosophical journey with one of the world's most acclaimed thinkers available in a more compact and affordable format.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

• Introductionp. 8
• Comparative Tables
• Nude Venusp. 16
• Nude Adonisp. 18
• Clothed Venusp. 20
• Clothed Adonisp. 22
• Face and Hair of Venusp. 24
• Face and Hair of Adonisp. 26
• Madonnap. 28
• Jesusp. 30
• Kingsp. 32
• Queensp. 34
• Proportionsp. 34
• The Aesthetic Ideal in Ancient Greece
• The Chorus of the Musesp. 37
• The Artist's Idea of Beautyp. 42
• The Beauty of the Philosophersp. 48
• Apollonian and Dionysiac
• The Gods of Delphip. 53
• From the Greeks to Nietzschep. 57
• Beauty as Proportion and Harmony
• Number and Musicp. 61
• Architectonic Proportionp. 64
• The Human Bodyp. 72
• The Cosmos and Naturep. 82
• The Other Artsp. 86
• Conformity with the Purposep. 88
• Proportion in Historyp. 90
• Light and Color in the Middle Ages
• Light and Colorp. 99
• God as Lightp. 102
• Light, Wealth, and Povertyp. 105
• Ornamentationp. 111
• Color in Poetry and Mysticismp. 114
• Color in Everyday Lifep. 118
• The Symbolism of Colorp. 121
• Theologians and Philosophersp. 125
• The Beauty of Monsters
• A Beautiful Portrayal of Uglinessp. 131
• Legendary and Marvelous Beingsp. 138
• Ugliness in Universal Symbolismp. 143
• Ugliness as a Requirement for Beautyp. 148
• Ugliness as a Natural Curiosityp. 152
• From the Pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata
• Sacred and Profane Lovep. 154
• Ladies and Troubadoursp. 161
• Ladies and Knightsp. 164
• Poets and Impossible Lovesp. 167
• Magic Beauty between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
• Beauty Between Invention and Imitation of Naturep. 176
• The Simulacrump. 180
• Suprasensible Beautyp. 184
• The Venusesp. 188
• Ladies and Heroes
• The Ladies...p. 193
• ...and the Heroesp. 200
• Practical Beauty...p. 206
• ...and Sensual Beautyp. 209
• From Grace to Disquieting Beauty
• Toward a Subjective and Manifold Beautyp. 214
• Mannerismp. 218
• The Crisis of Knowledgep. 225
• Melancholyp. 226
• Agudeza, Wit, Conceits...p. 229
• Reaching Out for the Absolutep. 233
• Reason and Beauty
• The Dialectic of Beautyp. 237
• Rigor and Liberationp. 241
• Palaces and Gardensp. 242
• Classicism and Neoclassicismp. 244
• Heroes, Bodies, and Ruinsp. 249
• New Ideas, New Subjectsp. 252
• Women and Passionsp. 259
• The Free Play of Beautyp. 264
• Cruel and Gloomy Beautyp. 269
• The Sublime
• A New Concept of Beautyp. 275
• The Sublime Is the Echo of a Great Soulp. 278
• The Sublime in Naturep. 281
• The Poetics of Ruinsp. 285
• The "Gothic" Style in Literaturep. 288
• Edmund Burkep. 290
• Kant's Sublimep. 294
• Romantic Beauty
• Romantic Beautyp. 299
• Romantic Beauty and the Beauty of the Old Romancesp. 304
• The Vague Beauty of Je Ne Sais Quoip. 310
• Romanticism and Rebellionp. 313
• Truth, Myth, and Ironyp. 315
• Gloomy, Grotesque, Melancholicp. 321
• Lyrical Romanticismp. 325
• The Religion of Beauty
• Aesthetic Religionp. 329
• Dandyismp. 333
• Flesh, Death, and the Devilp. 336
• Art for Art's Sakep. 338
• Against the Grainp. 341
• Symbolismp. 346
• Aesthetic Mysticismp. 351
• The Ecstasy Within Thingsp. 353
• The Impressionp. 356
• The New Object
• Solid Victorian Beautyp. 361
• Iron and Glass: The New Beautyp. 364
• From Art Nouveau to Art Decop. 368
• Organic Beautyp. 374
• Articles of Everyday Use: Criticism, Commercialization, Mass Productionp. 376
• The Beauty of Machines
• The Beautiful Machine?p. 381
• From Antiquity to the Middle Agesp. 385
• From the Fifteenth Century to the Baroquep. 388
• The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuriesp. 392
• The Twentieth Centuryp. 394
• From Abstract Forms to the Depths of Material
• "Seek His Statues among the Stones"p. 401
• The Contemporary Re-Assessment of Materialp. 402
• The Ready Madep. 406
• From Reproduced to Industrial Material to the Depths of Materialp. 407
• The Beauty of the Media
• The Beauty of Provocation or the Beauty of Consumption?p. 413
• The Avant-Garde, or the Beauty of Provocationp. 415
• The Beauty of Consumptionp. 418
• Bibliographical References of Anthology Translationsp. 431
• Index of Anthology Authorsp. 433
• Index of Artistsp. 435