On beauty / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Secker & Warburg, 2004.Description: 438 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0436205173 (hbk.)
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction | 111.85 ECO | 1 | Available | T00305535 |
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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