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9780300042078

Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300042078

  • ISBN10:

    0300042078

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 1988-07-27
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Summary

In this authoritative and lively book, Unberto Eco, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher, examines the development of some of the principal aesthetic theories and problems of medieval Latin civilization.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations vi
Translator's Note vii
Preface viii
Introduction 1(3)
The Medieval Aesthetic Sensibility
4(13)
Transcendental Beauty
17(11)
The Aesthetics of Proportion
28(15)
The Aesthetics of Light
43(9)
Symbol and Allegory
52(13)
Aesthetic Perception
65(9)
The Aesthetics of the Organism
74(10)
Development and Decline of the Aesthetics of the Organism
84(8)
Theories of Art
92(13)
Inspiration and the Status of Art
105(11)
Conclusion
116(4)
Bibliography 120(10)
Index 130

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