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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 33,463 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,641 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.95 — 457,988 ratings — published 1972
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,008 ratings — published -335
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,950 ratings — published 1790
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,955 ratings — published 2009
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,935 ratings — published 1794
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,896 ratings — published 1757
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,511 ratings — published 1871
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,149 ratings — published
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,898 ratings — published 1936
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,353 ratings — published 1977
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 69,659 ratings — published 2004
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,889 ratings — published 1934
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,674 ratings — published 1957
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,803 ratings — published 2000
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,106 ratings — published 1973
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,849 ratings — published 1897
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,488 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,775 ratings — published 1906
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,756 ratings — published 1955
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 11,013 ratings — published 1966
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 81,076 ratings — published 1980
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,197 ratings — published 1994
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 353 ratings — published 1896
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,739 ratings — published 1971
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 258 ratings — published 1976
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 95,991 ratings — published 1912
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,833 ratings — published -380
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,154 ratings — published 1981
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,849 ratings — published 1999
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 482,561 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,108 ratings — published 1
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 476 ratings — published 1977
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,657 ratings — published 2003
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 210 ratings — published 1999
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,068 ratings — published 1950
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,134 ratings — published 1982
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,575 ratings — published 1987
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,074 ratings — published 1997
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 457 ratings — published
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 349 ratings — published 1990
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 273 ratings — published 1968
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.56 — 553 ratings — published
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 96 ratings — published 2007
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,009,696 ratings — published 1890
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,788 ratings — published 1979
The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,288 ratings — published 1983
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,055 ratings — published 2016
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 424 ratings — published 2003
“Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.”
― Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
― Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1
“Were they aware, in the intensity of their embrace, of something slightly ridiculous about this tableau, something almost comical, as someone nearby sneezed violently into a crumpled tissue; as a dirty discarded plastic bottle scuttled along the platform under a breath of wind; as a mechanised billboard on the station wall rotated from an advertisement for hair products to an advertisement for car insurance; as life in its ordinariness and even ugly vulgarity imposed itself everywhere all around them? Or were they in this moment unaware, or something more than unaware—were they somehow invulnerable to, untouched by, vulgarity and ugliness, glancing for a moment into something deeper, something concealed beneath the surface of life, not unreality but a hidden reality: the presence at all times, in all places, of a beautiful world?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
