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Aesthetics Books
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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,653 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,617 ratings — published 1970
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,840 ratings — published 1790
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,678 ratings — published 1972
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,215 ratings — published -335
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,881 ratings — published 2009
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,834 ratings — published 1757
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,889 ratings — published 1794
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 21,836 ratings — published 1871
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,124 ratings — published
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,935 ratings — published 1936
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,437 ratings — published 2004
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,338 ratings — published 1977
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,839 ratings — published 1934
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,434 ratings — published 1957
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,778 ratings — published 2000
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,744 ratings — published 1897
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,119 ratings — published 1973
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,151 ratings — published 2007
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,620 ratings — published 1955
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,094 ratings — published 1906
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,940 ratings — published 1980
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,659 ratings — published 1966
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,017 ratings — published 1994
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 350 ratings — published 1896
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,712 ratings — published 1971
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 257 ratings — published 1976
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,767 ratings — published 1912
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,785 ratings — published 1999
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,551 ratings — published 2003
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 470,855 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,091 ratings — published 1
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 468 ratings — published 1977
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,128 ratings — published 1981
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 205 ratings — published 1999
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 92,709 ratings — published -380
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,102 ratings — published 1982
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,548 ratings — published 1987
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,064 ratings — published 1997
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,019 ratings — published 1950
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 265 ratings — published 1968
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 454 ratings — published
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 344 ratings — published 1990
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 96 ratings — published 2007
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,268 ratings — published 1998
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,511 ratings — published 1945
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 533 ratings — published
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,095 ratings — published 1810
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,937,619 ratings — published 1890
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,695 ratings — published 1979
“We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.”
― In Praise of Shadows
― In Praise of Shadows
“In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
