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.
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...
评分在《美的历史》之后,艾柯再推新书,剖析世人对“丑”之成见,颠覆传统的审美观。《丑的历史》不是简单的图像集合,而是会聚了艾柯的美学思索。《丑的历史》举凡恐怖、受难、死亡、魔鬼、启示录、怪物、凶兆、诙谐、猥亵、巫术、撒旦主义、虐待狂、媚俗……无奇不有,无所不...
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,什么是真正的...
评分非常值得稱讚的是,質量很不錯! 很喜歡這本書的質地,手感很好,因為有一定的重量所以拿在手上的感覺很像在捧著一本百科全書, 裏面的插圖也有些出乎我的意外, 關於【醜的歷史】這本書裏面所講訴的有關資料與歷史, 我之前已閱讀過不少, 不過裏面的有些插圖我還是第一次看到...
图书馆:BH 301.U5 O5 2007
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。
评分完美
评分图书馆:BH 301.U5 O5 2007
评分图书馆:BH 301.U5 O5 2007
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