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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,665 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,606 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 437,612 ratings — published 1972
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,678 ratings — published -335
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,729 ratings — published 1790
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,836 ratings — published 2009
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,400 ratings — published 1871
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,776 ratings — published 1757
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,864 ratings — published 1794
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,103 ratings — published
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,756 ratings — published 2004
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,618 ratings — published 1936
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,325 ratings — published 1977
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,256 ratings — published 1957
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,803 ratings — published 1934
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,763 ratings — published 2000
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,016 ratings — published 1973
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,670 ratings — published 1897
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,111 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,689 ratings — published 1906
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,510 ratings — published 1955
![Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1312018081l/497164._SX50_.jpg)
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,923 ratings — published 1980
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,918 ratings — published 1994
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,437 ratings — published 1966
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,686 ratings — published 1971
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 348 ratings — published 1896
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 254 ratings — published 1976
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,738 ratings — published 1999
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,964 ratings — published 1912
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,606 ratings — published 2003
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,106 ratings — published 1981
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 464 ratings — published 1977
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 200 ratings — published 1999
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,082 ratings — published 1982
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 464,555 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,066 ratings — published 1
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,537 ratings — published 1987
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 260 ratings — published 1968
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,696 ratings — published -380
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,006 ratings — published 1950
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 448 ratings — published
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086 ratings — published 1810
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 339 ratings — published 1990
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,261 ratings — published 1998
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,058 ratings — published 1997
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,450 ratings — published 1945
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 412 ratings — published 2003
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,278 ratings — published 1983
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.56 — 515 ratings — published
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
by (shelved 17 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 94 ratings — published 2007
“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
― An Artist of the Floating World
― An Artist of the Floating World
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
