On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea by Umberto Eco

On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea

Umberto Eco with Alastair McEwan

438 pages hardcover 2004

24 editions

nonfiction art history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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'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.

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