The infinity of lists
By: Umberto Eco ; translation by Alastair McEwen
Publisher: Rizzoli
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780847832965
Work titles: Vertigine della lista
Description: 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.
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"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-407) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The shield and its form; title: The list and the catalogue; title: The visual list; title: The ineffable; title: Lists of things; title: Lists of places; title: There are lists and lists; title: Exchanges between list and form; title: The rhetoric of enumeration; title: Lists of mirabilia; title: Collections and treasures; title: The Wunderkammer; title: Definition by list of properties versus definition by essence; title: The Aristotelian telescope; title: Excess, from Rabelais onwards; title: Coherent excess; title: Chaotic enumeration; title: Mass-media lists; title: Lists of vertigos; title: Exchanges between practical and poetic lists; title: A non-normal list.