Istorii︠a︡ krasoty
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The book is dedicated to the question, which has always worried artists, philosophers, scientists and poets: What is beauty? Different epochs answered differently to it, sometimes even various consepts of beauty within one culture contradicted to each other. The reader will know how in the course of centuries people’s attitude to beauty of nature, woman and man’s body, numbers, precious stones, clothes, God and Devil changed. The author’s reasoning is supplemented with the expressions by famous philosophers, poets and writers. The book is illustrated with the examples from painting, architecture, sculpture, cinema, television and advertisement.
