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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

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Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. As a followup to Umberto Eco's History of Beauty, I have also created a presentation on his "On Ugliness" for my course. Surprisingly, I found the images and related passages about ugliness much more interesting than the ones about beauty. As Eco himself notes, the topic of ugliness is one that is written about much less frequently than ugliness, so it was certainly a change of pace. There's 2007-12-02 · Umberto Eco’s “On Ugliness” asks whether repulsiveness, too, is in the eye of the beholder.

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In his excursion into the nature of ugliness (On Ugliness, 2007), Umberto Eco mentions many philosophers, painters, sociologists, and theologians in the quest to define the aesthetics of ugliness. The pages of the book are well-populated with colorful classics of art and painting, from Renaissance to modern, depictions intended to illustrate ugliness as a physical defect and psychological unease. As a followup to Umberto Eco's History of Beauty, I have also created a presentation on his "On Ugliness" for my course.

On Ugliness by Umberto Eco was an amazing anthology of readings by everyone from Joseph Conrad and Andre Bernard to Jean-Paul Sartre and Oscar Wilde. In addition, the author’s own input at the beginning of each chapter offered new insight to help develop my own exploration of the subject and its allure (both historic and contemporary).

And, in this sixteenth-century painting by Quentin Matsys, Ill-Matched Lovers, his ugliness is heightened by his pretty wife or girlfriend.She looks lovingly at him through lidded eyes and caresses his stubbled chin.

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Paperback $27.95. Sep 27, 2016 | ISBN Umberto Eco presents a historical compendium of ugliness and horror throughout time. Ugliness in the Classical World, The Apocalypse, Hell and the Devil, The Ugliness of Woman, Witchcraft, Satanism, Sadism, The Avant-Guarde and the Triumph of Ugliness - all chapters in this lavishly illustrated (dare I say 'beautiful'?) book from Rizzoli.

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