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Aesthetics Books
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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,246 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,583 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 425,296 ratings — published 1972
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 28,878 ratings — published -335
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,585 ratings — published 1790
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,762 ratings — published 2009
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 20,755 ratings — published 1871
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,698 ratings — published 1757
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,813 ratings — published 1794
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,087 ratings — published
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,397 ratings — published 2004
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,306 ratings — published 1977
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,092 ratings — published 1936
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,001 ratings — published 1957
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,782 ratings — published 1934
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,720 ratings — published 2000
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 55,234 ratings — published 1973
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,111 ratings — published 1906
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,353 ratings — published 1955
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,571 ratings — published 1897
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,034 ratings — published 2007
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,781 ratings — published 1980
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,771 ratings — published 1994
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,152 ratings — published 1966
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,648 ratings — published 1971
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 345 ratings — published 1896
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 250 ratings — published 1976
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,675 ratings — published 1999
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,617 ratings — published 1912
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,073 ratings — published 1981
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 197 ratings — published 1999
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,050 ratings — published 1982
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 454,170 ratings — published 1950
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (paper)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 434 ratings — published 1977
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,486 ratings — published 2003
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,042 ratings — published 1
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 254 ratings — published 1968
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 441 ratings — published
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,522 ratings — published 1987
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,409 ratings — published -380
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,239 ratings — published 1998
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,358 ratings — published 1945
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 982 ratings — published 1950
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.43 — 404 ratings — published 2003
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,047 ratings — published 1997
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,077 ratings — published 1810
The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,356 ratings — published 1925
The Theater and Its Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,724 ratings — published 1938
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 334 ratings — published 1990
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,277 ratings — published 1983
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
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“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”
― Aesthetic Theory
― Aesthetic Theory
