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Aesthetics

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Images

  • A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.
  • Two couples in a dance position. Ink drawing.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Shukra and Rambha. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1894.
  • A sculpture yard filled with copies of Greek and Roman sculptures, together with contemporary people and objects. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1753.
  • Venus at her toilet; she sits on the lap of a female attendant, another attendant combs her hair and two cherubs hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.
  • Apsara with pet deer. Watercolour drawing.
  • Furniture in human and animal forms. Coloured etching by S. de Wilde, 1807, after "Sylvester Scrutiny".
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • A country dance in a long hall; the elegance of the couple on the left contrasts with the ridiculous poses of the more rustic figures beyond representing "unidealized" humanity; straight, angular and round shapes. Engraving by William Hogarth, 1753.
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Works

  • view Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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    Kallos : a treatise on the scientific culture of personal beauty and the cure of ugliness / by a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

    | Date: 1883
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    Letters to a young nobleman.

    | Date: 1763
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    On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

    | Date: 2007
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    A letter to H. Repton, Esq. on the application of the practice as well as the principles of landscape-painting to landscape-gardening: intended as a supplement to the Essay on the picturesque. By Uvedale Price, Esq. To which is prefixed, Mr. Repton's letter to Mr. Price.

    Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829. | Date: M.DCC.XCV. [1795]
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    The human eros : eco-ontology and the aesthetics of existence / Thomas M. Alexander.

    Alexander, Thomas M., 1952- | Date: 2013
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