Die Geschichte Der Häßlichkeit by Umberto Eco
A witty, erudite cultural history that traces how perceptions of ugliness have been constructed and contested from antiquity to the modern era, surveying myths, art, literature, religion, and philosophy to show how deformity, the grotesque, and the monstrous have been used to convey moral, political and aesthetic meanings; richly illustrated and grounded in semiotic analysis, it explores shifting standards, ambivalent attitudes, and the porous boundary between beauty and ugliness across cultures and historical periods.
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- 2007
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- Italian
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- Italian
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- Alternate Titles
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- On Ugliness
- Storia della bruttezza
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