书名：On Beauty翁贝托艾柯：美的历史
作者：Umberto Eco
出版社名称：Quercus Publishing
出版时间：2010

语种：英语
ISBN：9780857050205
商品尺寸：16.2 x 2.9 x 20.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：440（以实物为准）

Sumptuously illustrated and fascinatingly written - a vast store of wisdom about the nature of beauty itself.

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.

"Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our time" Los Angeles Times

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.

全才大师艾柯历时45年的经典巨献，已被译成28种语言，风靡全球。

《美的历史》不从任何先入为主的美学出发，而是综观数千年来西方社会视为美的事物，做多层次布局，呈现美的脉络。

全书以主叙述带出源源不绝的绘画、雕刻作品，并长篇征引各时代的作家与哲学家，书前附上多页依时代顺序安排的图片对照表，使自古以来的对于“美”的观点之演变史一目了然。

作者以独到见解，将美于时代洪流中抽丝剥茧，对美的发展历程做广博精辟的说明，广及文学、艺术等各方面，呈现方式具独特的质感、美感，随处展现着美学大师的真知灼见。

这部精美、份量十足的作品，提供读者多层次的路径，包括流动的文字记叙、绘画与雕刻等丰富的例证，另也将每个时代的作家、哲学家所摘选以及比较的说明内容收录其中。对读者而言，此书犹如一部美的概念的指引地图，引人惊奇地走入一趟趟精采的旅行。

美是什么？什么是艺术？品味与时尚是什么？美是要冷静、理性观察的东西，还是会牵动灵魂的媒介？在艾柯的带领下，我们走上这么一趟引人入胜的审美之旅，探索多变的“美”观，从古希腊以降，直到今天，并研析历世与美相伴相随的价值理念。除了密切检视视觉艺术，并援引各个时代的文学作品，提供印证，他还扩大探讨范围，考虑爱情、女性的角色，以及丑、残忍，甚至魔性等课题。

《美的历史》将美的历史脉络呈现，它不仅是一部艺术的历史或美学史，而且是作者结合两者为美的概念所下的定义，涵括的范围自古典到现代。书中论及的美包含绘画、雕刻、建筑、电影、摄影、装置艺术以及文学等，领域广泛，包罗万象，以使广大的读者都能信服。

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.