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History of beauty / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.

Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York : Rizzoli, 2005Edition: Second editionDescription: 438 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0847826465
Uniform titles:
  • Storia della bellezza. English.
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Art Can Be N-E-Where
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BH81 .H57 2005 1 Available 33039000749407

Includes bibliographical references (page 431) and indexes.

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.

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