| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 431) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Comparative tables -- Nude Venus -- Nude Adonis -- Clothed Venus -- Clothed Adonis -- Face and hair of Venus -- Face and hair of Adonis -- Madonna -- Jesus -- Kings -- Queens -- Proportions -- I. The aesthetic ideal in ancient Greece -- 1. The chorus of muses -- 2. The artist's idea of beauty -- 3. The beauty of the philosophers -- II. Apollonian and Dionysiac -- 1. The gods of Delphi -- 2. From the Greeks to Nietzsche -- III. Beauty as proportion and harmony -- 1. Number and music -- 2. Architectonic proportion -- 3. The human body -- 4. The cosmos and nature -- 5. The other arts -- 6. Conformity with the purpose -- 7. Proportion in history -- IV. Light and color in the Middle Ages -- 1. Light and color -- 2. God a light -- 3. Light, wealth, and poverty -- 4. Ornamentation -- 5. Color in poetry and mysticism -- 6. Color in everyday life -- 7. The symbolism of color -- 8. Theologians and philosophers -- V. The beauty of monsters -- 1. A beautiful portrayal of ugliness -- 2. Legendary and marvelous beings -- 3. Ugliness in universal symbolism -- 4. Ugliness as a requirement for beauty -- 5. Ugliness as a natural curiosity -- VI. From the pastourelle to the Donna Angelicata -- 1. Sacred and profane love -- 2. Ladies and troubadours -- 3. Ladies and knights -- 4. Poets and impossible loves -- |
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VII. Magic beauty between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries -- 1. Beauty between invention and imitation of nature -- 2. The simulacrum -- 3. Suprasensible beauty -- 4. The Venuses -- VIII. Ladies and heroes -- 1. The ladies ... -- 2. ... and the heroes -- 3. Practical beauty ... -- 4. ... and sensual beauty -- IX. From grace to disquieting beauty -- 1. Toward a subjective and manifold beauty -- 2. Mannerism -- 3. The crisis of knowledge -- 4. Melancholy -- 5. Agudeza, wit, conceits ... -- 6. Reaching out for the absolute -- X. Reason and beauty -- 1. The dialectic of beauty -- 2. Rigor and liberation -- 3. Palaces and gardens -- 4. Classicism and neoclassicism -- 5. Heroes, bodies, and ruins -- 6. New ideas, new subjects -- 7. Women and passions -- 8. The free play of beauty -- 9. Cruel and gloomy beauty -- XI. The sublime -- 1. A new concept of beauty -- 2. The sublime is the echo of a great soul -- 3. The sublime in nature -- 4. The poetics of ruins -- 5. The "Gothic" style in literature -- 6. Edmund Burke -- 7. Kant's sublime -- XII. Romantic beauty -- 1. Romantic beauty -- 2. Romantic beauty and the beauty of the old romances -- 3. The vague beauty of Je Ne Sais Quoi -- 4. Romanticism and rebellion -- 5. Truth, myth, and irony -- 6. Gloomy, grotesque, melancholic -- 7. Lyrical romanticism -- |
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XIII. The religion of beauty -- 1. Aesthetic religion -- 2. Dandyism -- 3. Flesh, death, and the devil -- 4. Art for art's sake -- 5. Against the grain -- 6. Symbolism -- 7. Aesthetic mysticism -- 8. The ecstasy within things -- 9. The impression -- XIV. The new object -- 1. Solid Victorian beauty -- 2. Iron and glass : the new beauty -- 3. From Art Nouveau to Art Deco -- 4. Organic beauty -- 5. Articles of everyday use : criticism, commercialization, mass production -- XV. The beauty of machines -- 1. The beautiful machine? -- 2. From antiquity to the MIddle Ages -- 3. From the fifteenth century to the Baroque -- 4. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 5. The twentieth century -- XVI. From abstract forms to the depths of materials -- 1. "Seek his statues among the stones" -- 2. The contemporary re-assessment of material -- 3. The ready made -- 4. From reproduced to industrial material to the depths of material -- XVII. The beauty of the media -- 1. The beauty of provocation or the beauty of consumption? -- 2. The avant-garde, or the beauty of provocation -- 3. The beauty of consumption. |
| Summary |
"This volume, with supplements and adaptations, derives from the CD-rom Bellezza, storia di un'idea dell'occident, edited by Umberto Eco, produced by Motta On Line in 2002"--T.p. verso. |
| Subject |
Aesthetics -- History.
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Art -- Philosophy -- History.
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Art and philosophy -- History.
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| Added Author |
Eco, Umberto.
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McEwen, Alastair.
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| ISBN |
0847826465 |
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9780847826469 |
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