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Aesthetics Books
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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,087 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,627 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 448,686 ratings — published 1972
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,870 ratings — published 1790
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,501 ratings — published -335
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,911 ratings — published 2009
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,907 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 3.69 — 2,855 ratings — published 1757
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,060 ratings — published 1871
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,131 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 — 25,070 ratings — published 1936
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,751 ratings — published 2004
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,340 ratings — published 1977
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,851 ratings — published 1934
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,508 ratings — published 1957
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,788 ratings — published 2000
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,778 ratings — published 1897
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,638 ratings — published 1973
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,167 ratings — published 2007
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,656 ratings — published 1955
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,311 ratings — published 1906
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,474 ratings — published 1980
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,766 ratings — published 1966
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,075 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 — 3,722 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 — 258 ratings — published 1976
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,168 ratings — published 1912
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,801 ratings — published 1999
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 474,404 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,097 ratings — published 1
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 470 ratings — published 1977
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,942 ratings — published 2003
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,139 ratings — published 1981
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 206 ratings — published 1999
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,702 ratings — published -380
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,107 ratings — published 1982
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,555 ratings — published 1987
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,065 ratings — published 1997
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,036 ratings — published 1950
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 267 ratings — published 1968
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 455 ratings — published
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 345 ratings — published 1990
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 — 3,727 ratings — published 1979
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 540 ratings — published
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,098 ratings — published 1810
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,959,241 ratings — published 1890
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 420 ratings — published 2003
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,272 ratings — published 1998
“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.
“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
