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 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
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

Pride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahEmma by Jane AustenGmorning, Gnight! by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Books for the ISFP
120 books — 20 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


Hiromu Arakawa
Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful. ...more
Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

Friedrich Nietzsche
Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols / The Anti-Christ

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