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Original Title:	Storia della bruttezza
ISBN:	0847829863 (ISBN13: 9780847829866)
Edition Language:	English

On Ugliness

Umberto Eco

Hardcover | Pages: 456 pages

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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 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 skills combine in this ingenious 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. Topics range from Milton's Satan to Goethe's Mephistopheles; from witchcraft and medieval torture tactics to martyrs, hermits, and penitents; from lunar births and disemboweled corpses to mythic monsters and sideshow freaks; and from Decadentism and picturesque ugliness to the tacky, kitsch, and camp, and the aesthetics of excess and vice. With abundant examples of painting and sculpture ranging from ancient Greek amphorae to Bosch, Brueghel, and Goya among others, and with quotations from the most celebrated writers and philosophers of each age, this provocative discussion explores in-depth the concepts of evil, depravity, and darkness in art and literature.

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Title	:	On Ugliness
Author	:	Umberto Eco
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 456 pages
Published	:	October 30th 2007 by Rizzoli International Publications (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Art. Nonfiction. Philosophy. History. Art History

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Storia Della Bruttezza = On ugliness, Umberto EcoOn Ugliness is a 2007 essay by Italian author Umberto Eco, originally published by Bompiani in 2007. The book is a continuation of Eco's 2004 aesthetic work On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea. Like the previous work, this essay combines literary excerpts and illustrations of artworks from ancient times to the present to define the concept of what it means to be ugly. "Ugliness is more fun than beauty", said Eco himself.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز

A great overview of the "ugly" side of art history, with Eco's commentary deferring to quoted passages from example literature, some obscure, some well-studied. More of a survey than pure discourse or analysis, but that's okay by me. The book is also disappointingly Euro-centric, with only vague references to other culture's consideration of ugliness or horror (would have been great to see some examples from Japanese, Indian, African, or Meso-American literature, etc). The visual artwork in the

Umberto Eco's profound philosophical approach to ugliness will definitely change the reader's perspective of beauty. The book argues that ,like beauty, ugliness has its unique and distinct features. Much of the book debunks the notion that all that is ugly is unattractive; the author posits that it's actually the fact that UGLINESS is repulsive that makes it unconsciously attractive. Furthermore, the book asserts that understanding ugliness is a way to understand beauty. The book, however, was

This is a coffee-table history book; I was immediately disappointed when I received the book due to the thickness, the tiny size of the font, and the large number of pictures that were included. After reading through the beginning, I set the book aside--it definitely doesn't belong to the popular science genre (social science sub-genre) that I'd originally assigned it to after reading a synopsis.It seems that most of Eco's non-fiction books really aren't meant to be read by anyone other than

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In other words, beauty is about contemplation, is about disinterested emotion. Ugliness, on the other hand, is not only about seeing, but also about feeling strong feelings, like repulsion, disgust, horror and fear. On this distinction made by Karl Rosenkrantz, in his Aesthetic of Ugliness (1856) it is loosely based this anthology. After identifying three phenomena: ugliness in itself, formal ugliness and artistic portrayal of both, Umberto Eco seems mainly

So far I love this book. I studied art in college and appreciate finding books about art that aren't dry and repetitive, too touchy-feely, etc.; and this book is definitely original and well written.

Praises are sung in honor of beauty, lives have lost for it, wars have been waged for it (thanks, Helen, ya strumpet) so why are we fascinated by ugliness? 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.