| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
455 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-446) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Ugliness in the classical world -- Passion, death, martyrdom -- The apocalypse, hell, and the devil -- Monsters and portents -- The ugly, the comic, and the obscene -- The ugliness of woman from antiquity to the baroque period -- The devil in the modern world -- Witchcraft, satanism, sadism -- Physica curiosa -- Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness -- The uncanny -- Iron towers and ivory towers -- The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness -- The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp -- Ugliness today. |
| Summary |
In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty," the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others. |
| Subject |
Ugliness.
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Aesthetics.
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Ugliness in art.
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Art -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Eco, Umberto.
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| ISBN |
9780847829866 |
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0847829863 |
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