No. 016
On Beauty
A History of a Western Idea
Umberto Eco, translated by Alastair McEwen
Secker & Warburg, 2004
Selected by Avigon Paphitis, Gorgeous Nothings
Eco traces changing ideas of beauty in the West from classical antiquity to the present, pairing his own commentary with an anthology of primary texts. Draws on painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, novels and poems, and compares across periods - 1960s dress against ancient Egyptian, Roman hairstyles against eighteenth-century.
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