The Analysis of Beauty
Why do we consider some things beautiful and others ugly, some elegant and others awkward? English artist and satirist WILLIAM HOGARTH (1697-1764), who was so innovative that he invented what we call today the comic strip, was famous-some of his contemporaries would have said infamous-for his skewering of 18th-century ideals of morality and sexuality, especially those prevalent among the upper classes. And in this 1753 classic, he mounted an argument that might have appalled some of his detractors: that beauty is not a matter of taste and fashion, but arises naturally as a matter of certain inviolate rules. Decrying the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-954-8
- EAN: 9781605209548
- Produktnummer: 5877119
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B12.7 cm x D1.4 cm 282 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 282
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