- Aesthetics, Art, Philosophy, Literature
From the Publisher: What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today.
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Cool, epic, character-led and spare.
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Umberto Eco
- First published
- November 13, 2004
- Pages
- 438
- Publisher
- Rizzoli, Rizzoli International Publications, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780847826469
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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy. Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books
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