On beauty
2004
Book
'On Beauty' is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times.
Main title:
On beauty / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
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Imprint:
London : Secker & Warburg, 2004.
Collation:
438 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. facsims., ports. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780436205170 (hbk)
Dewey class:
111.85
Language:
EnglishItalian
BRN:
10986