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History of Beauty Paperback – September 21, 2010

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Now in paperback, Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture. The profound and subtle text is lavishly illustrated with abundant examples of sublime painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. This is the first paperback edition of History of Beauty, making this intellectual and philosophical journey with one of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers available in a more compact and affordable format.

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Umberto Eco is the author of many best-selling novels, including The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, as well as many acclaimed nonfiction works. He is currently professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli; Reprint edition (September 21, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 440 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847835308
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847835300
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.83 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 1 x 8 inches

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Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian novelist, medievalist, semiotician, philosopher, and literary critic.

He is the author of several bestselling novels, The Name of The Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of The Day Before, and Baudolino. His collections of essays include Five Moral Pieces, Kant and the Platypus, Serendipities, Travels In Hyperreality, and How To Travel With a Salmon and Other Essays.

He has also written academic texts and children's books.

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Beca

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2021

Warmly recommended

Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2021

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Art book listed vgc is like new, in a great mailer. Could not be happier. Thank you

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Scrambler

Some books one just wants around!

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015

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A beautiful book. I misplaced mine (loaned it to someone? or it's someplace where it will show up? or?) and so missed having it around to just pick up and peruse from time to time that I replaced it with this used copy in like-new condition. I don't do that often and is probably the strongest evidence I can offer of the pull of this volume. I also own Eco's companion book on Ugliness -- purchased many years after the first HoB. Hope I don't lose it, because I enjoy having it, too, but would be less compelled to replace it. Besides the visuals, Eco's text is a pleasure.

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P. Karargiris

History of Beauty

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2008

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This is an excellent archive of writing about and images of beauty from Classical Antiquity to the present day. The one thing that the book makes abundantly clear is that what is considered "beautiful" is constantly changing. The concept of that which is beautiful is as old as the human race itself and will continue to be redefined as long as history lasts. Umberto Eco's strength in bringing this collection of texts and images together is his use of little known sources from the Middle Ages as well as Italian Renaissance authors such as Baldassare Castiglione who deserve to be better known. Binding, design and organisation are all first rate and this is a very readable and accessable text. Beauty is all that pleases................

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John Seybold

Thinking made clear

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2005

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Only Umberto Eco could write a book that defines beauty through the ages of western culture as this one does. He looks at the great contemporary writers for insight into the great contemprary artists. Umberto brings Plato to the front to explain early Greek art, and brings in Hume to explain humanist style. It is a classical book that should be used in colleges to not only introduce people to art but to thinking about art and words. The color plates are wonderful. What I wish is that the Italian CDrom was available in English. One can see from the style used that this book was a great interactive CDrom.

Reading Umberto's insights and looking at great art..what a wonderful way to spend a morning at starbucks!

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History of Beauty in a beautiful package

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2015

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This is a beautifully bound book, even next to its original hard cover release. It's nice and compact without compromising the quality of the photographs. Even though I got this for research purposes, I've decided not to mark the pages with my notes so that I can have this sit on my coffee table. A must for all Eco fans !

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GlevumGuy.

very, very, small text.

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2014

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A well written and interesting book but you had better have very good eyes. The largest text is about 1/16 inch high but some is even smaller this, both sizes are used throughout the book, (perhaps 12 and 10 point). Not easy to read, especially in the (extensive) sections where its colored light blue. What would have possessed anyone to do this i have no idea, though I am referring to the paper back version, maybe the hard cover is a larger format.

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Milla

Wonderful copy

Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2019

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-- on time, as described, and well-packed

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