The ugly truth
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1400077,00.html
Umberto Eco's primer on European aesthetics, On Beauty, leaves Mike
Phillips wanting more
Saturday January 29, 2005
The Guardian
On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea
edited by Umberto Eco
438pp, Secker & Warburg, =A330
Umberto Eco is notorious as the Italian professor of semiotics who
wrote a bestseller, The Name of the Rose, which sparked off a host of
imitators and invigorated interest in the study of medieval art and
culture. In addition to all that, he has been an editor in TV and
publishing, a columnist for an avant garde monthly, and a prolific
essayist. If there is such a thing as a renaissance man, Eco is it.
Umberto Eco
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