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.
《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...
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...
评分美有标准,但丑的形式却是无穷无尽。继《美的历史》后,翁贝托•艾柯(Umberto Ec)大师又一部震惊全球的巨作,《丑的历史》谈的丑不再是美的附属品,而是恢弘地呈现“全面的丑”。 人们对于“美”会自然而然的产生倾慕,并提出了许多理论替美下意义,对于丑的事物,却由心中...
评分本来以为要把纸质书背到美国去读,结果还是赶在出发之前的最后一天看完了艾柯的《丑的历史》。一开始以为这本书是关于艺术史的,后来才知道它实际上是一本哲学+美学著作。加上自己时间比较紧张,中译本的翻译也不是特别好,所以算看了个半懂不懂吧。个人认为这本书比较猎奇,记...
美丑观念随时代及文化而变化,价值观也一样。比如歌星搁古代就是卖唱的,演员搁以前就是卖笑的,什么琴棋书画唱歌跳舞现在叫才艺,以前只有青楼妓女才学。
评分图书馆:BH 301.U5 O5 2007
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
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