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On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: New York : Rizzoli, 2007Edition: First editionDescription: 455 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0847829863
  • 9780847829866
Uniform titles:
  • Storia della bruttezza. English.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.85 22
Contents:
Ch. I. Ugliness in the Classical World -- Ch. II. Passion, Death, Martyrdom -- Ch. III. The Apocalypse, Hell, and the Devil -- Ch. IV. Monsters and Portents -- Ch. V. The Ugly, the Comic, and the Obscene -- Ch. VI. The Ugliness of Woman from Antiquity to the Baroque Period -- Ch. VII. The Devil in the Modern World -- Ch. VIII. Witchcraft, Satanism, Sadism -- Ch. IX. Physica curiosa -- Ch. X. Romanticism and the Redemption of Ugliness -- Ch. XI. The Uncanny -- Ch. XII. Iron Towers and Ivory Towers -- Ch. XIII. The Avant-Garde and the Triumph of Ugliness -- Ch. XIV. The Ugliness of Others, Kitsch, and Camp -- Ch. XV. Ugliness Today.
Review: "In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned author and culture critic Umberto Ecos's On Ugliness is an exploration of the dark, the grotesque, the monstrous, and the repellent 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? why do we fear death, illness, imperfection, apocalypse? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder? Eco's encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling skills combine in this ingenious and fascinating study of the Ugly, revealing that what we often shield ourselves from and shun in everyday life is what we're most attracted to subliminally."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-446) and index.

Ch. I. Ugliness in the Classical World -- Ch. II. Passion, Death, Martyrdom -- Ch. III. The Apocalypse, Hell, and the Devil -- Ch. IV. Monsters and Portents -- Ch. V. The Ugly, the Comic, and the Obscene -- Ch. VI. The Ugliness of Woman from Antiquity to the Baroque Period -- Ch. VII. The Devil in the Modern World -- Ch. VIII. Witchcraft, Satanism, Sadism -- Ch. IX. Physica curiosa -- Ch. X. Romanticism and the Redemption of Ugliness -- Ch. XI. The Uncanny -- Ch. XII. Iron Towers and Ivory Towers -- Ch. XIII. The Avant-Garde and the Triumph of Ugliness -- Ch. XIV. The Ugliness of Others, Kitsch, and Camp -- Ch. XV. Ugliness Today.

"In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned author and culture critic Umberto Ecos's On Ugliness is an exploration of the dark, the grotesque, the monstrous, and the repellent 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? why do we fear death, illness, imperfection, apocalypse? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder? Eco's encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling skills combine in this ingenious and fascinating study of the Ugly, revealing that what we often shield ourselves from and shun in everyday life is what we're most attracted to subliminally."--BOOK JACKET.

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