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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 34,921 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,654 ratings — published 1970
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,985 ratings — published 1790
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.95 — 462,685 ratings — published 1972
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,323 ratings — published -335
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,984 ratings — published 2009
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 — 2,913 ratings — published 1757
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,958 ratings — published 1794
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 22,749 ratings — published 1871
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,156 ratings — published
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,368 ratings — published 1977
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 — 27,192 ratings — published 1936
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 70,510 ratings — published 2004
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,932 ratings — published 1934
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,774 ratings — published 1957
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,818 ratings — published 2000
What is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,918 ratings — published 1897
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 61,273 ratings — published 1973
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 20,374 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 19,006 ratings — published 1906
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,808 ratings — published 1955
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,137 ratings — published 1966
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 82,419 ratings — published 1980
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,259 ratings — published 1994
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 359 ratings — published 1896
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,746 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 — 260 ratings — published 1976
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 98,486 ratings — published 1912
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 487,231 ratings — published 1950
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 96,817 ratings — published -380
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,163 ratings — published 1981
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,879 ratings — published 1999
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,118 ratings — published 1
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 477 ratings — published 1977
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,030 ratings — published 2003
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 211 ratings — published 1999
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,592 ratings — published 1987
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,076 ratings — published 1950
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,140 ratings — published 1982
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,084 ratings — published 1997
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 461 ratings — published
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 352 ratings — published 1990
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 274 ratings — published 1968
The Anti-aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,290 ratings — published 1983
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.55 — 573 ratings — published
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 95 ratings — published 2007
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,033,783 ratings — published 1890
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,821 ratings — published 1979
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.43 — 424 ratings — published 2003
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,821 ratings — published 1990
“Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”
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“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
