Secker & Warburg Ltd, Date: 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x1x6. Very heavy, Extra postage required unless posted within South Africa. The jacket is a little shelf rubbed. It is protected in cellophane. The boards show little wear. Internally, minor mark on the title page. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound. r*28/02/2024. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. 2004. Secker & Warburg Ltd ISBN 0436205173 9780436205170 [ZA]

ISBN10: 0436205173, ISBN13: 9780436205170, [publisher: Secker & Warburg] Hardcover Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diversified readership: taking in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts, novels and poems, it offers a rich and intelligent panorama of this huge subject. It traces the philosophy of aesthetics through history and examines some of the many treatises that have sought to define it. Beauty is Umberto Eco at his most captivating and eclectic: we read not only of Botticelli and Michelangelo but of how the fashion of the 1960s owes much to ancient Egyptian dress, and how ancient Roman and eighteenth-century hairstyles have much in common. It makes the familiar new, and sheds a brilliant new light on the unfamiliar. Illustrated in full colour throughout and produced to the highest standards, Beauty is an indispensable book. 2004, First english edition, first printing. A fine, unmarked and unread copy in a fine, unclipped d/w. Scans available if required.
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ISBN10: 0436205173, ISBN13: 9780436205170, [publisher: Secker] Hardcover 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.
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