More than 300 illustrations trace the history of Western art as it relates, in the broadest sense, to the topic of beauty. Along the way, the text examines the intersection of standards of beauty with Christian belief, notions of the Sublime, the philosophies of Kant and Hegel, and bourgeois culture. This survey ranges over such themes as the mathematics of ideal proportions, the problem of representing ugliness, the fascination of the exotic and art for art's sake. History of Beauty is really about the history of philosophical and perceptual notions of perfection and how they have been applied to ideas and objects, as well as to the human body. In History of Beauty, renowned author Umberto Eco sets out to demonstrate how every historical era has had its own ideas about eye-appeal. Storia della bellezza = History of Beauty = On Beauty, 2nd ed, 2005, Umberto Ecoīeauty is in the eye of the beholder, but it also has a lot to do with the beholder's cultural standards.
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