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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another one I remember reading some years ago, without now recalling its details, much as I usually enjoy Eco. ( ) A collection of images and literary extracts about beauty and beautiful things. This is the kind of book to dip into now and again to see how different times and cultures have approached the idea of beauty. But just one word of caution: be aware that it's quite expensive and fundamentally a pretty coffee-table book - this is a selection of snippets which has been put together by Eco, not written by him. Pictorially speaking this is a beautiful book. There are so many images to illustrate "Beauty" that it almost looks like an art book. Then you start reading and everything you thought you'd read about the history of beauty if forgotten and suddenly you have an art book in your hands with concepts of beauty in different artistic styles. The book is not what I thought. I expected contextualization of the theme... but it never got there. A História da Beleza de Umberto Eco não trata da beleza apenas nas pinturas explicada em textos curtos e fáceis, como foi propagandeado. Ele trata enciclopedicamente da beleza em várias formas, auxiliado por citações. É um ótimo livro para ler do início ao fim, de forma a melhor entender a evolução dos conceitos de beleza, mas também é um bom livro para ler aos poucos e focar nos conceitos de cada época, e também um bom livro de referência, ou seja, um bom livro para reler várias vezes. no reviews | add a review
"This volume, with supplements and adaptations, derives from the CD-rom Bellezza, storia di un'idea dell'occident, edited by Umberto Eco, produced by Motta On Line in 2002"--T.p. verso. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)111.8509Philosophy and Psychology Metaphysics Ontology Properties of being Aesthetics Aesthetics Biography And HistoryLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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