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
Critique of Judgment
Poetics
Beauty
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
The Birth of Tragedy
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
History of Beauty
Aesthetics and Politics
Art as Experience
The Poetics of Space
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
7 books — 2 voters
Ways of Seeing by John BergerPoses for Artists Volume 4 - Couples Poses by Justin R. MartinPoses for Artists Volume 3 - Fighting and Various Poses by Justin R. MartinThe Death of the Author by Roland BarthesPoses for Artists Volume 2 - Standing Poses by Justin R. Martin
Contemporary Art
20 books — 13 voters

The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail BakhtinPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireRabelais and His World by Mikhail BakhtinThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninCapitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
theLitCritGuy
100 books — 13 voters

Wassily Kandinsky
Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work. Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Charlaine Harris
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body. ...more
Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark

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