Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.

In Praise of Shadows
Aesthetic Theory
Ways of Seeing
Poetics
Critique of Judgment
Beauty
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
The Birth of Tragedy
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
History of Beauty
Aesthetics and Politics
The Poetics of Space
Art as Experience
The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail BakhtinPedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireRabelais and His World by Mikhail BakhtinThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninCapitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
theLitCritGuy
100 books — 13 voters

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda NochlinThe Lives of the Artists by Giorgio VasariIntroductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelReflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and S... by Johann Joachim WinckelmannThe Politics of Vision by Linda Nochlin
Foundations of Art History
38 books — 6 voters
Ways of Seeing by John BergerPoses for Artists Volume 4 - Couples Poses by Justin R. MartinPoses for Artists Volume 3 - Fighting and Various Poses by Justin R. MartinThe Death of the Author by Roland BarthesPoses for Artists Volume 2 - Standing Poses by Justin R. Martin
Contemporary Art
20 books — 13 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotPhaedrus by PlatoThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
101 books — 7 voters
The Symposium by PlatoPoetics by AristotleOedipus Rex by SophoclesFragments by HeraclitusTao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Aesthetic Investigations
22 books — 1 voter

There is an expression in Japanese that says that someone who makes things of poor quality is in fact worse than a thief because he doesn't make things that will last or provide true satisfaction. A thief at least redistributes the wealth of a society. ...more
Andrew Juniper, Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence - Understanding the Zen Philosophy of Beauty in Simplicity

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
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— ...more
Junichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows

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