by Umberto Eco · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426414687
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In 'History of Beauty', Umberto Eco guides us through the evolution of the concept of beauty throughout history, from classical antiquity to the present day. This richly illustrated book with masterpieces from all eras explores the various ideas of beauty proposed and debated over time. Through images and texts by philosophers, writers, scientists, and artists, Eco reconstructs the ways in which beauty has been perceived by different cultures and eras, inviting the reader on an intellectual and emotional adventure.
Umberto Eco was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies and literary theory, as well as Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on the history of occultism and its contemporary interpretation through the new age movement.
