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Umberto Eco - On Ugliness

Umberto Eco - On Ugliness

Entertaining collection of art history essays edited by the Italian author

15 Nov 2011

(MacLehose Press) Just as notions of beauty are very much in the eye of the beholder, what constitutes ‘ugly’ can be viewed differently across centuries and continents. Football teams who ‘play ugly’ might still end up as winners, while being told by…

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco - review

Social analysis

1 Nov 2007

Umberto Eco likes to think of himself as disagreeable. Being described as such, he says, ‘fills me with pride and virtuous satisfaction.’ To this end, he exhorts readers to, among other things, insult the dead, ritually sacrifice presidents, choose…

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