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History of Ugliness

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Does ugliness always symbolize evil? Why have philosophers, artists, and writers for many centuries invariably turned to deviations from the norm, disproportions, and depicted the devil's intrigues, the horrors of the underworld, the suffering of martyrs, and the Last Judgment? How did their contemporaries react to these works and how do we perceive them today? This book will appeal to fans of Umberto Eco and to anyone interested in culture and art. In The History of Ugliness, Umberto Eco addresses the phenomenon of the ugly, which has most often been seen as the opposite of the beautiful, but has never been explored in detail. However, the ugly is a much more complex concept than the simple negation of forms of beauty. Ugliness has for centuries manifested itself in forms far more varied and unpredictable than is commonly thought. Reading and contemplating this book will take you on a remarkable journey through the nightmares, horrors, and pathological fascinations of man over the last three thousand years of his existence. Sharp rejection is juxtaposed here with pinching gusts of compassion, disgust for ugly forms is interspersed with decadent delight before seductive violations of all canons. The author analyzes the phenomenon of ugliness, supporting his story with philosophical and literary texts, lines of poetry, and examples from painting, iconography, sculpture, and cinema. Umberto Eco is a famous scholar and writer, professor of semiotics and president of the Graduate School of Humanistic Studies at the University of Bologna.
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