On The History of Ugliness
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Umberto Eco
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In “History of Beauty,” Umberto Eco explored the ways in which notions of attractiveness shift from culture to culture and era to era. With ON UGLINESS, a collection of images and written excerpts from ancient times to the present, he asks: Is repulsiveness, too, in the eye of the beholder? And what do we learn about that beholder when we delve into his aversions? Selecting stark visual images of gore, deformity, moral turpitude and malice, and quotations from sources ranging from Plato to radical feminists, Eco unfurls a taxonomy of ugliness. As gross-out contests go, it’s both absorbing and highbrow.
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Interesting. But would've been nice to also see the slides to which Mr. Eco refers.
I agree. It would really be nice to also see the slides!
Competent profesor shows us the beautyful side of the uglliness.Very intersesting and educative in the same time.But it would be nice to also see the slides that prof.Eco presents.