Concept
Ugliness
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On ugliness / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen.
Date: 2007
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A carbuncled woman retiring to bed; creating a satirical figure of female vanity. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 10741i
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Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.Date: 1892Reference: 14295i- Books
Look at my ugly face : myths and musings on beauty and other perilous obsessions with women's appearance / Sara Halprin.
Halprin, Sara.Date: 1995- Pictures
A man in a large hood with an overhanging forehead and a protruding chin. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1775, after himself.
Bossi, Benigno, 1727-1792.Date: 1776Reference: 34702iPart of: Fisonomie possibili