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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Dazzlingly erudite and sumptuously illustrated ON BEAUTY is a remarkable new work from one of the world’s most renowned writers and thinkers. ON BEAUTY is neither a history of art nor a history of aesthetics but rather 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. ON BEAUTY has been conceived for a vast and diverse 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 Sany treatises that have sought to define it. (MP)