{"product_id":"beauty-illustrated-chiefly-by-an-analysis-and-classification-of-beauty-in-woman","title":"Beauty; Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classification of Beauty in Woman.","description":"xx, 390 pp. A study of the standard dictating what is considered beautiful, specifically as related to the physical appearance of women, distinct from other treatments of the topic in that it discusses factors within an individual's control that may affect their beauty (e.g., fashion), while also discussing historical standards of beauty, defects negatively affecting beauty, etc. Originally published in London in 1836, this edition incorporates revisions made by an American physician. The appendix following the text also appears to be the work of this editor, as it refers to the author as 'Mr. Walker' and is somewhat critical of certain perspectives. Modern aesthetic theory also rejects many of Walker's opinions as pseudoscience, especially those resembling phrenology. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: \"Walker's most successful work was Beauty (1836), the first volume of his trilogy on Woman - which also included Intermarriage (1838) and Woman (1839) - in which he applied the scientific disciplines of anatomy and physiology to the female form. Drawing on the work of such notable theoreticians of beauty as Leonardo da Vinci, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Joseph Hume, William Hogarth, and Edmund Burke, Beauty foreshadowed Walter Pater's work The Renaissance (1870). Yet according to Walker, accounts of the 'mystical and delusive' character of female beauty should be replaced by the division of the human figure into a hierarchical structure with three major sections: the feet and legs (the locomotive organs); the trunk (the nutritive or vital organs); and the head (the mental organs). Two further works on the same theme - Female Beauty (1837) and Exercises for Ladies (1837) - were published under the authorship of Mrs A. Walker and Donald Walker respectively, but (though it is known that Walker was married at some point) it is generally thought that he wrote these works himself.\"","brand":"J. and H.G. Langley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44197318230086,"sku":"2351435","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2351435.jpg?v=1764954174","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/beauty-illustrated-chiefly-by-an-analysis-and-classification-of-beauty-in-woman","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}