On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea [Audiobook] download free by Umberto Eco
- Listen audiobook: On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea
- Author: Umberto Eco
- Release date: 2010/5/31
- Publisher: QUERCUS PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9780857050205
- Rating: 7.13 of 10
- Votes: 545
- Review by: Adele Turk
- Review rating: 7.68 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/2
- Duration: 5H28M2S in 256 kbps (88 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, Musepack, WMA, WAV, MP3 (compression CAB, RAR, 7Z, ZIP, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 440
- Includes a PDF summary of 42 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M55S (8.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, On Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diverse readership. Packed with examples from painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts and literature, it offers a rich and intelligent panorama of this huge subject. In On Beauty Eco is at his most captivating and eclectic: we read not only of Botticelli and Michelangelo but of how much the fashion of the 1960s owes 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 light on the unfamiliar. On Beauty is illustrated in full colour throughout and produced to the highest standards.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Philosophy: Aesthetics
- Download servers: Dropbox, KATCR, Lufi, FileServe, Microsoft OneDrive, BitShare, FreakShare. Compressed in CAB, RAR, 7Z, ZIP, TAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 32.78 USD
- Dimensions: 162x205x29mm
- Weight: 836g
- Printed by: MacLehose Press
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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