In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty, renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the magnetic appeal of the sordid and the scandalous come from? Is ugliness also in the eye of the beholder? Eco’s encyclopedic knowledge and captivating storytelling skills combine in this ingenious study of the Ugly, revealing that what we often shield ourselves from and shun in everyday life is what we’re most attracted to subliminally. Topics range from Milton’s Satan to Goethe’s Mephistopheles; from witchcraft and medieval torture tactics to martyrs, hermits, and penitents; from lunar births and disemboweled corpses to mythic monsters and sideshow freaks; and from Decadentism and picturesque ugliness to the tacky, kitsch, and camp, and the aesthetics of excess and vice. With abundant examples of painting and sculpture ranging from ancient Greek amphorae to Bosch, Brueghel, and Goya among others, and with quotations from the most celebrated writers and philosophers of each age, this provocative discussion explores in-depth the concepts of evil, depravity, and darkness in art and literature.
Umberto Eco is a world-renowned writer of fiction, essays, and academic treatises and is undoubtedly one of the finest authors of our time. Among his best-selling novels are The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and Baudolino.
美是有情人眼里的西施——必提福(beautiful),丑是无情人眼里的东施——阿哥累(ugly)。本来,妍媸百态,燕瘦环肥,各有所爱,但是立场、偏好、经验、所有权和文化环境,决定了人们对于美丑高下的主观性划分标准。伏尔泰在《哲学辞典》里说,“问蛤蟆什么是美,什么是真正的...
评分基本靠看图。旁征博引扎实有趣。比如: “你能为我解释吗,我们大便的时候,为什么经常端详我们的排泄物?”伊索解释说:“从前有个国王的儿子,他因为生活安逸又奢华,大多时间坐在那里大便。有一回,他坐在那里,忘了自己在做什么,坐太久,把他的常识也给拉掉了。从那天起,...
评分“媚俗也一直被用来形容希特勒、墨索里尼政权下那些歌功颂德,要全民欢迎的艺术。” 美的对立为丑,然而审美与审丑皆有共性,存在许多不确定因素,翁贝托・艾柯写《美的历史》后,再作《丑的历史》,在书前《导论》里说:“每个世纪都有哲学家和艺术家提出‘美’的定...
评分丑的第一映像,来自小时美术课本后页那些达利的画。当时真不知道,为什么画成这样,为什么会有人要看。 丑的印象还来自于 那些类似 标准时代 的雕塑。被抽去了比例和尊严,今人生厌。 显然,我明白不了,美就是丑,丑就是美的道理。但看到作者说,再撒旦堕落前,他应该是最美...
评分《丑的历史》有网友说老早收到了,讲收到的书品相交关好。我5月24日在卓越下的这笔订单,31日中午收到,与第二次调换的《时间的故事》一起送来。精装书品相出人意料的漂亮——快递员说,这两本精装都从苏州库房调拨而来呢,他不知道的是这两本书都是Viking兄编辑滴。 对于这...
方所看到的原版大书里面的图文比我读的小中文译本震撼很多,整个压抑感爆炸。不过文献好多,全英文我也是啃不动的。。。有得有失,译本把很多原著文献翻得不够味道是一定,不过单看译本多而不少还是有收获
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评分方所看到的原版大书里面的图文比我读的小中文译本震撼很多,整个压抑感爆炸。不过文献好多,全英文我也是啃不动的。。。有得有失,译本把很多原著文献翻得不够味道是一定,不过单看译本多而不少还是有收获
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