History of beauty
Eco, Umberto (1932-2016)
History of beauty / Umberto Eco ; Girolamo de Michele : translated by Alastair McEwen - New York : Rizzoli International Publications , 2007, c2002 - 438 p. : illus. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Donated by Toller Cranston
The aesthetic ideal in ancient Greece -- Apollonian and dionysiac -- Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Light and color in the Middle Ages -- The beauty of monsters -- From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ladies and heroes -- From grace to disquieting beauty -- Reason and beauty -- The sublime -- Romantic beauty -- The religion of beauty -- The new object -- The beauty of machines -- From abstract forms to the depths of materials -- The beauty of the media.
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.
Translated from Italian to English.
9780847826469
Art---Philosophy
Art---History
Literature ---History
Aesthetics
111.85 ECO
History of beauty / Umberto Eco ; Girolamo de Michele : translated by Alastair McEwen - New York : Rizzoli International Publications , 2007, c2002 - 438 p. : illus. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Donated by Toller Cranston
The aesthetic ideal in ancient Greece -- Apollonian and dionysiac -- Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Light and color in the Middle Ages -- The beauty of monsters -- From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ladies and heroes -- From grace to disquieting beauty -- Reason and beauty -- The sublime -- Romantic beauty -- The religion of beauty -- The new object -- The beauty of machines -- From abstract forms to the depths of materials -- The beauty of the media.
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.
Translated from Italian to English.
9780847826469
Art---Philosophy
Art---History
Literature ---History
Aesthetics
111.85 ECO
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