He treats ugliness as a disease, classifying its various forms and indicating such remedies as he can. His classes are coarseness, thinness, obesity, vulgarity, wrinkles, defects of circulation ...

"We discovered how much fun it was to look for ugliness, because ugliness is more interesting than beauty. Beauty is frequently boring, everybody knows what beauty is," the author of "The Name of ...

Eco’s thoughts on ugliness in contemporary culture are the most interesting: in an age of goth and cyborg aesthetics, the boundaries between beauty and ugliness are perhaps permanently blurred.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then so is ugliness. For proof, look no further than the concept’s own history, most recently traced by Gretchen E. Henderson. Although there are some ...

Ugliness has recently emerged as a serious subject of study and academic interest unto itself, in some small part because of the success of television’s “Ugly Betty,” which ABC promoted with ...

Introduction: rethinking ugliness / Andrei Pop and Mechtile Widrich -- 1. The Ugly Face Club : a case study in the tangled politics and aesthetics of deformity / Gretchen E. Henderson -- 2. The face ...

Think of a storybook villain. The Phantom of the Opera, Ursula the Sea Witch, the Evil Stepmother. They all have something in common: Ugliness. As researchers and advocates have long pointed out ...