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Aesthetics Books
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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,010 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,596 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 433,456 ratings — published 1972
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,359 ratings — published -335
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,668 ratings — published 1790
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,813 ratings — published 2009
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 — 2,743 ratings — published 1757
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,110 ratings — published 1871
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,840 ratings — published 1794
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,092 ratings — published
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,294 ratings — published 2004
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,389 ratings — published 1936
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,320 ratings — published 1977
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,795 ratings — published 1934
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,132 ratings — published 1957
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,748 ratings — published 2000
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,338 ratings — published 1973
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,618 ratings — published 1897
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,411 ratings — published 1906
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,089 ratings — published 2007
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,444 ratings — published 1955
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,497 ratings — published 1980
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,850 ratings — published 1994
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,323 ratings — published 1966
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,668 ratings — published 1971
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 346 ratings — published 1896
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,713 ratings — published 1999
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 254 ratings — published 1976
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,509 ratings — published 1912
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 462 ratings — published 1977
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,111 ratings — published 2003
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,096 ratings — published 1981
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 199 ratings — published 1999
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,068 ratings — published 1982
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 461,081 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,055 ratings — published 1
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,532 ratings — published 1987
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 257 ratings — published 1968
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 89,146 ratings — published -380
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 990 ratings — published 1950
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 444 ratings — published
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.43 — 407 ratings — published 2003
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,254 ratings — published 1998
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,053 ratings — published 1997
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,409 ratings — published 1945
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,079 ratings — published 1810
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 335 ratings — published 1990
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.55 — 505 ratings — published
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,398 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,855,728 ratings — published 1890
“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”
― Dead Until Dark
― Dead Until Dark
“Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.”
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