02471nam 2200577 450 991046106910332120210209174549.01-283-20195-X97866132019590-8264-3945-4(CKB)2670000000106940(EBL)742951(OCoLC)745866674(SSID)ssj0000531137(PQKBManifestationID)12197543(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000531137(PQKBWorkID)10571114(PQKB)10292497(MiAaPQ)EBC5309590(MiAaPQ)EBC742951(Au-PeEL)EBL742951(CaONFJC)MIL320195(EXLCZ)99267000000010694020180315h20042004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA history of human beauty /Arthur MarwickLondon, [England] ;New York, New York :Hambledon and London,2004.©20041 online resource (305 p.)Includes index.1-84725-050-5 Contents; Illustrations; Preface; 1 Fascination; 2 Plato, Augustine and Mrs Astell; 3 Kings and Concubines; 4 Something Handsome and Cheap; 5 Getting Married; 6 Grandes Horizontales; 7 The Tallest Wins; 8 Movies; 9 The Swinging Sixties; 10 A Gift from the Genes; Notes; Note on Sources; IndexIf Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Antony would have fallen in love with her. It: A History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power, intelligence, strength, wealth, education or family, that had a marked effect on history. Beauty in men and women opened opportunities to its possessors not available to the ordinary looking or ugly. While in the past women have had to use the lure of sex to achieve power or wealth, epitomised by royal mistresses or the Grandes Horizontales of the nineteenth Aesthetics, ModernBeauty, PersonalHistoryElectronic books.Aesthetics, Modern.Beauty, PersonalHistory.111.85Marwick Arthur1936-2006,49111MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461069103321A history of human beauty2487793UNINA