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In the mold of his acclaimed History of Beauty , renowned cultural critic Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness is an exploration of the monstrous and the repellant in visual culture and the arts. What is the voyeuristic impulse behind our attraction to the gruesome and the horrible? Where does the... read more
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Introduction
Chapter I - Ugliness in the Classical World
1. A Word Dominated by Beauty?
2. The Greek World and Horror
Chapter II - Passion, Death, Martyrdom
1. The "Pancalistic" View of the Universe
2. The Suffering of Christ
3. Martyrs, Hermits, Penitents
4. The Triumph of Death
Chapter III - The Apocalypse, Hell, and the Devil
1. A Universe of Horrors
2. Hell
3. The Metamorphoses of the Devil
Chapter IV - Monsters and Portents
1. Prodigies and Monsters
2. An Aesthetic of the Immeasurable
3. The Moralization of Monsters
4. The Mirabilia
5. The Fate of Monsters
Chapter V - The Ugly, the Comic, and the Obscene
1. Priapus
2. Satires on the Peasantry and Carnival Festivities
3. Renaissance and Liberation
4. Caricature
Chapter VI - The Ugliness of Woman from Antiquity to the Baroque Period
1. The Anti-Female Tradition
2. Mannerism and the Baroque
Chapter VII - The Devil in the Modern World
1. From Rebellious Satan to Poor Mephistopheles
2. The Demonization of the Enemy
Chapter VIII - Witchcraft, Satanism, Sadism
1. Witches
2. Satanism, Sadism, and the Taste for Cruelty
Chapter IX - Physica curiosa
1. Lunar Births and Disemboweled Corpses
2. Physiognomy
Chapter X - Romanticism and the Redemption of Ugliness
1. The Philosophy of Ugliness
2. The Ugly and the Damned
3. The Ugly and the Unhappy
4. The Unhappy and the Ill
Chapter XI - The Uncanny
Chapter XII - Iron Towers and Ivory Towers
1. Industrial Ugliness
2. Decadentism and the Licentiousness of the Ugly
Chapter XIII - The Avant-Garde and the Triumph of Ugliness
Chapter XIV - The Ugliness of Others, Kitsch, and Camp
1. The Ugliness of Others
2. Kitsch
3. Camp
Chapter XV - Ugliness Today
General bibliography
Bibliographical references of excerpts
Index of Authors and Other Sources
Index of Artists
Photography Credits
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Original Language: Italian
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Country: Italy
Publication Date: August 2007
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Page Count: 456
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- Dewey: 111.8509
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