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
The Birth of Tragedy
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
History of Beauty
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Aesthetics and Politics
Art as Experience
The Poetics of Space
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan MageeDecoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics by Bernardo KastrupSchopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy by Rüdiger SafranskiThe Riddle of the World by Barbara HannanHistorical Dictionary of Schopenhauer's Philosophy by David E. Cartwright
On Schopenhauer
96 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

Kerry Greenwood
In here, Phryne, is the nursery. Do you like babies? Phryne laughed. No, not at all. they are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. look at that one---you'd swear he had been hitting the gin. ...more
Kerry Greenwood, Cocaine Blues

Leonard Bernstein
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.
Leonard Bernstein

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