Sold out
Parameters
- 438 pages
- 16 hours of reading
More about the 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.
Book purchase
On beauty : a history of a Western idea, Umberto Eco
- Language
- Released
- 2004
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Hardcover)
We’ll email you as soon as we track it down.
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Umberto Eco
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 438
- ISBN10
- 0436205173
- ISBN13
- 9780436205170
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, Philosophical Topics, Art, Philosophy, Southern Europe, Italy, Art History & Criticism, History of Art, Italian Literature, Aesthetics, Beauty, Colors, Proportions
- First published
- 2004
- Original title
- Storia della Bellezza
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- '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.