History of Beauty

By: Umberto Eco

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Art - Craft - Hobbies - Music, Classics, History,

ISBN: 9780847835300

SKU: BE501068939788

Pages: 440

Description: 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.