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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,576 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,634 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 452,792 ratings — published 1972
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,909 ratings — published 1790
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,742 ratings — published -335
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,931 ratings — published 2009
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,920 ratings — published 1794
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,874 ratings — published 1757
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,275 ratings — published 1871
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,140 ratings — published
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,219 ratings — published 1936
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,347 ratings — published 1977
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 69,006 ratings — published 2004
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,862 ratings — published 1934
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,580 ratings — published 1957
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,793 ratings — published 2000
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,811 ratings — published 1897
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 59,126 ratings — published 1973
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,187 ratings — published 2007
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,701 ratings — published 1955
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,506 ratings — published 1906
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,872 ratings — published 1966
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 80,086 ratings — published 1980
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,132 ratings — published 1994
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 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 — 3,731 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 — 94,530 ratings — published 1912
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,830 ratings — published 1999
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,140 ratings — published 1981
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 477,918 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,100 ratings — published 1
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 472 ratings — published 1977
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,778 ratings — published -380
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 24,296 ratings — published 2003
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 208 ratings — published 1999
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,118 ratings — published 1982
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,561 ratings — published 1987
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,071 ratings — published 1997
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,058 ratings — published 1950
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 456 ratings — published
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 346 ratings — published 1990
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 271 ratings — published 1968
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.56 — 545 ratings — published
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 96 ratings — published 2007
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,756 ratings — published 1979
The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,286 ratings — published 1983
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,105 ratings — published 1810
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,984,986 ratings — published 1890
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 422 ratings — published 2003
“Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.”
― Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
― Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
“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.”
― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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.”
― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
