Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

In Praise of Shadows
Aesthetic Theory
Ways of Seeing
Poetics
Critique of Judgment
Beauty
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
The Birth of Tragedy
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
History of Beauty
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Aesthetics and Politics
Art as Experience
The Poetics of Space
The Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotPhaedrus by PlatoThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
100 books — 6 voters
The Symposium by PlatoPoetics by AristotleOedipus Rex by SophoclesFragments by HeraclitusTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Aesthetic Investigations
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Cyberpunk Tao by Matthew   KowalskiAn Artists Pornography by Matthew   KowalskiWhite Black Grey by Matthew   KowalskiIntra Locution a Cyberia Advent by Matthew   KowalskiMindscape by Luminosity
Luminosity Books
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The Judgment of Paris by Ross KingThe Abuse of Beauty by Arthur C. DantoOf the Standard of Taste by David HumeThe Transfiguration of the Commonplace by DantoWhat Art Is by Arthur C. Danto
My Exploration on Art Theory
24 books — 3 voters
Kursbuch Medienkultur. Die maßgeblichen Theorien von Brecht b... by Bertolt BrechtZeitgenössische Utopieentwürfe in Literatur und Gesellschaft.... by Rolf JuckerVon der Stimme zum Internet. by Detlev SchöttkerThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor HugoDialektik der Aufklärung. Philosophische Fragmente by Max Horkheimer
Medienutopien
9 books — 1 voter

Wassily Kandinsky
Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Leonard Bernstein
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein

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