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A History of Human Beauty

By: Arthur Marwick

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Hardcover | 1 October 2004 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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If 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 century, modern film stars (male and female) can acquire great wealth simply by the use of their images, while attractiveness on television is an essential modern qualification for power, as shown by Ronald Reagan and Tony Blair.

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"Refreshingly clear and immediately useful" The Spectator, 20 November 2004

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Philosophy & Aesthetics History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History General & World History Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography History of Western Philosophy

Fascination
Plato, Augustine and Mrs. Astell
Kings and Concubines
Something Handsome and Cheap
Getting Married
Grandes Horizontales
The Tallest Wins
Movies
The Swinging Sixties
A Gift from the Genes
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