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
Critique of Judgment
Poetics
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
Art as Experience
The Poetics of Space
The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists by Peter  MurrayMannequins by Brandy IsadoraGentleman's Relish by Ronnie BarkerWritings and Drawings by Bob DylanThe Art of the Nasty by Nigel Wingrove
Books Relating To Art
37 books — 2 voters
Aesthetic Value by Alan GoldmanAesthetic Essays by Malcolm BuddContemplating Art by Jerrold LevinsonThe Metaphysics of Beauty by Nick ZangwillAesthetic Concepts by Emily  Brady
Contemporary Aesthetics
10 books — 1 voter

Over de esthetiek by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Judgment by Immanuel KantOn the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich SchillerAesthetic Theory by Theodor W. AdornoThe Republic by Plato
Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
193 books — 79 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 Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
243 books — 206 voters

Walter Benjamin
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
Walter Benjamin

Ariana Reines
I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to poin ...more
Ariana Reines

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