TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - On ugliness
A2  - Eco, Umberto
LA  - eng
PP  - London
PB  - Harvill Secker
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2165428
AB  - This book is the follow up to the previous volume, "On Beauty". Apparently beauty and ugliness are concepts that imply each other, and by ugliness we usually mean the opposite of beauty, so all we need do is define the first to understand the nature of the second. But the various manifestations of ugliness over the centuries are richer and more unpredictable than is commonly thought. The anthological quotations and the extraordinary illustrations in this book lead us on a surprising journey among the nightmares, terrors, and loves of almost three thousand years, where acts of rejection go hand in hand with touching gestures of compassion, and the rejection of deformity is accompanied by decadent ecstasies over the most seductive violations of all classical canons.Among demons, madmen, horrible enemies, and disquieting presences, among horrid abysses and deformities that verge on the sublime, among freaks and the living dead, we discover a vast and often unsuspected iconographic vein. So much so that, on gradually encountering in these pages the ugliness of nature, spiritual ugliness, asymmetry, disharmony, disfigurement, and the succession of things sordid, weak, vile, banal, random, arbitrary, coarse, repugnant, clumsy, horrendous, vacuous, nauseating, criminal, spectral, witchlike, satanic, repellent, disgusting, unpleasant, grotesque, abominable, odious, crude, foul, dirty, obscene, frightening, abject, monstrous, hair-raising, ugly, terrible, terrifying, revolting, repulsive, loathsome, fetid, ignoble, awkward, ghastly and indecent, the first foreign publisher to see this book exclaimed: 'How beautiful ugliness is!'
SN  - 1-846-55122-6 sidottu
SN  - 978-1-846-55122-2 sidottu
KW  - Art : Philosophy.
KW  - Aesthetics.
KW  - Ugliness.
KW  - Ugliness in art.
KW  - rumuus
KW  - estetiikka
KW  - historia
KW  - taidefilosofia
KW  - taidehistoria
KW  - esteettisyys
KW  - ihanteet
KW  - kauneusihanteet
KW  - taiteenlajit
KW  - kulttuurihistoria
KW  - visuaalinen kulttuuri
KW  - taide
KW  - epämuodostumat
KW  - kauhu
KW  - fulhet
KW  - estetik
KW  - konstfilosofi
KW  - konsthistoria
KW  - estetiskhet
KW  - ideal
KW  - skönhetsideal
KW  - konstarter
KW  - kulturhistoria
KW  - visuell kultur
KW  - konst
KW  - missbildningar
KW  - skräck
ER  -