On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea by Girolamo De Michele, Umberto Eco

On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea

Girolamo De Michele, Umberto Eco

438 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy mysterious slow-paced

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Beauty 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 f...

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