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Books like On Ugliness

If you loved On Ugliness by Umberto Eco, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

History of Beauty

Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele, Alastair McEwen

No. 2

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Ross King

No. 3

Leonardo's Notebooks

Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh

No. 4

The Lives of the Artists

Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella

No. 5

Dear Theo

Vincent van Gogh, Irving Stone, Jean Stone

No. 6

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich

No. 7

The Power of Art

Simon Schama

No. 8

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Mark Roskill, Arnold J. Pomerans

No. 9

The Shock of the New

Robert Hughes

No. 10

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

Andy Warhol

No. 11

The Island of the Day Before

Umberto Eco

No. 12

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

David Bayles, Ted Orland

No. 13

Edvard Munch: 1863-1944 (Basic Art)

Ulrich Bischoff

No. 14

The Last Nude

Ellis Avery

No. 15

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

No. 16

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

No. 17

On Photography

Susan Sontag

No. 18

Wall and Piece

Banksy

No. 19

Baudolino

Umberto Eco, William Weaver, R.C.S. Libri

No. 20

Seven Days in the Art World

Sarah Thornton

No. 21

Amphigorey (Amphigorey, #1)

Edward Gorey

No. 22

The King's Agent

Donna Russo Morin

No. 23

Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

Rainer Metzger, Ingo F. Walther

No. 24

History of Art

H.W. Janson, Anthony F. Janson