History of Beauty

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Edited by Umberto Eco,

Translated by Alastair McEwen

Rizzoli International Publications

Due/Published December 2004, 438 pages, cloth

ISBN 0847826465

"What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving?" So begins Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today.