Historia de la fealdad / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Maria Pons Irazazabal - Barcelona : Debolsillo, 2011. - 454p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-454) and indexes.

In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty," the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others.


Traducción de: Storia della bruttezza.

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Aesthetics -- History.
Ugliness in art.
Ugliness.
Ugliness--History.

Estetica -- Historia. Fealdad -- Historia. Fealdad en el arte. Grotesco en el arte.

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