Main entry:

Eco, Umberto.

Title & Author:

The infinity of lists / Umberto Eco ; translation by Alastair McEwen.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 2009.

Description:

408 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The infinity of lists, presented by the Musée du Louvre, Paris, in November 2009 and organized by Umberto Eco"--Preliminary page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-407) and indexes.
The shield and its form -- The list and the catalogue -- The visual list -- The ineffable -- Lists of things -- Lists of places -- There are lists and lists -- Exchanges between list and form -- The rhetoric of enumeration -- Lists of mirabilia -- Collections and treasures -- The Wunderkammer -- Definition by list of properties versus definition by essence -- The Aristotelian telescope -- Excess, from Rabelais onwards -- Coherent excess -- Chaotic enumeration -- Mass-media lists -- Lists of vertigos -- Exchanges between practical and poetic lists -- A non-normal list.

Summary:

Reflections on how the idea of catalogs has changed over the centuries and how, from one period to another, it has expressed the spirit of the times. Companion to the author's History of beauty and On ugliness.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780847832965
0847832961

Subject:

Lists History Exhibitions.
Catalogs History Exhibitions.
Aesthetics History Exhibitions.
Arts Exhibitions.
Listes Histoire Expositions.
Catalogues Histoire Expositions.
Esthétique Histoire Expositions.
Arts Expositions.
Lists in literature.
Catalogs in literature.
Literature History and criticism.
Aesthetics.
Arts.
Catalogs.
Lists.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Musée du Louvre.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267554
Call No.: BIB 199537
Status: Available