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Art - Philosophy

Images

  • A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
  • Venus at her toilet, assisted by the three Graces; she sits on the lap of one of them, another combs her hair, and two cupids hold a mirror in which she admires her own beauty. Engraving by M. Dorigny, 1651, after S. Vouet.
  • It floats : Swan Soap : train up a child in the way it should go / Lever Brothers Limited.
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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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    On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.

    | Date: 2007
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    "Ah Lord, love me passionately" : images of bodies & religion in the Lutz Teutloff collection : exposé for an imaginery exhibition / by Siegfried Zielinski in collaboration with Eckhard Fürlus = "Minne Mich Gewaltig!" : BildKörper & Religion in der Sammlung Lutz Teutloff : Exposé für eine imaginäre Ausstellung / von Siegfried Zielinski in collaboration mit Eckhard Fürlus.

    Zielinski, Siegfried | Date: [2009]
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    Cajal beyond the brain : Don Santiago contemplates the mind and its education : 20 essays of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine / compiled, translated and annotated by Lazaros C. Triarhou, M.D., Ph. D.

    Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934 | Date: 2015
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    Mémoires d'aveugle : l'autoportrait et autres ruines / Jacques Derrida.

    Derrida, Jacques. | Date: [1990], ©1990
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