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 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
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

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda NochlinThe Lives of the Artists by Giorgio VasariIntroductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelReflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and S... by Johann Joachim WinckelmannThe Politics of Vision by Linda Nochlin
Foundations of Art History
38 books — 6 voters
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 Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists by Peter  MurrayGentleman's relish by Ronnie BarkerWritings and Drawings by Bob DylanThe Art of the Nasty by Nigel WingroveThe Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari
Books Relating To Art
35 books — 1 voter
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

Roger Scruton
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
Roger Scruton

Kerry Greenwood
In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd swear he had been hitting the gin. ...more
Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues

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The Aesthetic Guides The Aesethic Guide group is going to have topics on different aesthetics and how tos! plus of co…more
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