History of Beauty

What is beauty? What is art, taste, fashion? Can beauty be evaluated within the framework of logic? Can objective determinations be made about beauty? Here, Umberto Eco starts his great expedition from the center of all these questions.

He examines the masterpieces of Western culture (without ignoring the Venus de Milo, Andy Warhol's Marilyn, Bosch's monsters, Botticelli's madonnas or Manet's odalisques) down to the smallest detail. It gives flawless definitions of different aspects of beauty; It drags its readers along on its time journey from ancient Greece to the present day. "What is beauty?" He enriches the narrative by including artists and thinkers who tried to answer such a difficult question in his book.

The History of Beauty redefines the definition of Beauty over and over again, developing all the accepted ideas to date.



Number of Pages: 440

Year of Printing: 2007


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Doğan Kitap

Number of Pages: 440

First Print Year: 2006

Language Turkish