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On beauty / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Secker & Warburg, 2004.Description: 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0436205173 (hbk.)
Subject(s):
Contents:
Ch. I. The aesthetic ideal in Ancient Greece -- Ch. II. Apollonian and Dionysiac -- Ch. III. Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Ch. IV. Light and color in the Middle Ages -- Ch. V. The beauty of monsters -- Ch. VI. From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Ch. VII. Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ch. VIII. Ladies and heroes -- Ch. IX. From grace to disquieting beauty -- Ch. X. Reason and beauty -- Ch. XI. The sublime -- Ch. XII. Romantic beauty -- Ch. XIII. The religion of beauty -- Ch. XIV. The new object -- Ch. XV. The beauty of machines -- Ch. XVI. From abstract forms to the depths of material -- Ch. XVII. The beauty of the media.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction 111.85 ECO 1 Available T00305535
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'On Beauty' is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times.

Cover subtitle: A history of a western idea.

Includes index

Ch. I. The aesthetic ideal in Ancient Greece -- Ch. II. Apollonian and Dionysiac -- Ch. III. Beauty as proportion and harmony -- Ch. IV. Light and color in the Middle Ages -- Ch. V. The beauty of monsters -- Ch. VI. From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- Ch. VII. Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- Ch. VIII. Ladies and heroes -- Ch. IX. From grace to disquieting beauty -- Ch. X. Reason and beauty -- Ch. XI. The sublime -- Ch. XII. Romantic beauty -- Ch. XIII. The religion of beauty -- Ch. XIV. The new object -- Ch. XV. The beauty of machines -- Ch. XVI. From abstract forms to the depths of material -- Ch. XVII. The beauty of the media.

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