On beauty
a history of a western idea
av Umberto Eco (redaktør) og Alastair McEwen (oversetter).
Secker and Warburg 2004 Innbundet
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This 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. In terms of form and style, the book has been conceived for a vast and diversified readership: taking in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts, novels and poems, it offers a rich and intelligent panorama of this huge subject. It traces the philosophy of aesthetics through history and examines some of the many treatises that have sought to define it. We read not only of Botticelli and Michelangelo but of how the fashion of the 1960s owes much to ancient Egyptian dress, and how ancient Roman and eighteenth-century hairstyles have much in common. It makes the familiar new, and sheds a brilliant new light on the unfamiliar. This book derives, with additions and adaptions, of the cd-rom Bellezza: storia di un'idea dell'occidente, edited by Umberto Eco in 2002.
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This 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. In terms of form and style, the book has been conceived for a vast and diversified readership: taking in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts, novels and poems, it offers a rich and intelligent panorama of this huge subject. It traces the philosophy of aesthetics through history and examines some of the many treatises that have sought to define it. We read not only of Botticelli and Michelangelo but of how the fashion of the 1960s owes much to ancient Egyptian dress, and how ancient Roman and eighteenth-century hairstyles have much in common. It makes the familiar new, and sheds a brilliant new light on the unfamiliar. This book derives, with additions and adaptions, of the cd-rom Bellezza: storia di un'idea dell'occidente, edited by Umberto Eco in 2002.
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Forlag Secker and Warburg
Utgivelsesår 2004
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9780436205170
EAN 9780436205170
Språk Engelsk
Sider 438
Utgave 1
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