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.
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.
(与《华商报》编辑我老妹的初次合作) 意大利学者翁贝托•艾柯在撰写他那本惊艳之作《美的历史》时,就专门设立了单章《怪物之美》来释解美与丑的辨证关系:“所有文化皆有其美的观念,亦有其丑的观念……在西方人眼中,其他文化的拜物与面具是可怖、畸形之物,当地人则可...
评分在著名的意大利小说家和学者翁贝托·艾柯的眼里,蒜头鼻、麻子脸和大肥腿都可以变得美丽而迷人。 艾柯上周在法兰克福书展上推出了自己的新作《丑的历史》(Storia dellabruttezza,英译书名为“OnUgliness”)。 他出版于2005年的《美的历史》(Storiadellabellezza...
评分看完挺震撼,除去政治因素,整个东方文化也总是露美遮丑,像我这样的85后接触到的历史文化其实是剥去了很多原汁原味的进化细节,被新的审美观重包过的。确实需要从内心把丑作为美不可分割的一部分来接纳。 我第一次见到此书是在机场候机厅,很吸引我,但价格太贵。...
评分在著名的意大利小说家和学者翁贝托·艾柯的眼里,蒜头鼻、麻子脸和大肥腿都可以变得美丽而迷人。 艾柯上周在法兰克福书展上推出了自己的新作《丑的历史》(Storia dellabruttezza,英译书名为“OnUgliness”)。 他出版于2005年的《美的历史》(Storiadellabellezza...
评分丑有很多种,因为丑而“自挂东南枝”的人却很少,“东施效颦而可厌,无盐刻画以难堪,此女之丑者。”东施虽丑,却冥冥中保了命。 曹雪芹有诗言:“一代倾城逐浪花,吴宫空自忆儿家。效颦莫笑东村女,头白西边尚浣纱。” 王昭君很美,因为不肯花钱给宫廷画师毛延寿P图,结果画了...
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评分完美
评分完美
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
评分蹲在Tate Britain 读完的,有关中译本撕逼得一塌糊涂,无奈看不懂意大利语,读 Alastair McEwen 的英译本也不错,好歹是Umberto Eco 指定的翻译。
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