From top: Walter Crane, illustration from “The Beauty and The Beast,” 1874. An example of what Eco calls “uncanny” ugliness, which can be described as “situational” ugliness—meaning unusual circumstances that make us feel uncomfortable or ill at ease; the cover of “On Ugliness” showing Quentin Massys’ painting, “Ill-Matched Lovers,” circa 1520-25; Bernardo Strozzi’s “Vanitas,”1630, which considers the passing of surface beauty; Salvador Dali’s “Gala and Millet’s Angelus precedes the imminent arrival of the Conical Anamorphosis,” 1933, another example of the uncanny, which can veer toward the surreal, strange and nightmarish; Henry Fuseli’s “Titania Caressing Bottom with the head of a Donkey,” 1793-4, an example of the unnatural and “grotesque”; a room at the Madonna Inn in California from the “Kitsch” chapter of the book.
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