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| #118521 in Books | Rizzoli | 2011-10-18 | 2011-10-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x1.10 x5.80l,1.85 | File type: PDF | 456 pages | Great product!||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Ugly book is a beauty|By M. Davis|These books are a work of art, both in the visual and literary sense. I keep them around and flip to any page and find something well worth reading. There is another book on beauty, which I also enjoyed, yet who doesn't enjoy the grotesque and shocking aspects of humanity more? "On Ugliness" is a beauty.|0 of 0 people found the following revie|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Italian literary and cultural critic Eco opens this visually dazzling and intellectually provocative companion volume to his History of Beauty (2004) by arguing that ugliness has been defined through the ages only as the opposit
In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid and the scandalous come from? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder? Eco’s encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling...
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