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Aesthetics Books
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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,966 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,624 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 447,482 ratings — published 1972
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,860 ratings — published 1790
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,427 ratings — published -335
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,898 ratings — published 2009
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,850 ratings — published 1757
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,902 ratings — published 1794
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,010 ratings — published 1871
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,128 ratings — published
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,036 ratings — published 1936
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 68,657 ratings — published 2004
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,338 ratings — published 1977
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,847 ratings — published 1934
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,491 ratings — published 1957
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,782 ratings — published 2000
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,770 ratings — published 1897
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,493 ratings — published 1973
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,166 ratings — published 2007
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,643 ratings — published 1955
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,263 ratings — published 1906
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,320 ratings — published 1980
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,727 ratings — published 1966
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,061 ratings — published 1994
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,722 ratings — published 1971
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 352 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 4.07 — 258 ratings — published 1976
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 94,046 ratings — published 1912
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,796 ratings — published 1999
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,819 ratings — published 2003
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 473,369 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,093 ratings — published 1
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 469 ratings — published 1977
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,136 ratings — published 1981
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 206 ratings — published 1999
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 93,392 ratings — published -380
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,106 ratings — published 1982
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,553 ratings — published 1987
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,067 ratings — published 1997
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,036 ratings — published 1950
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 266 ratings — published 1968
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 455 ratings — published
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 345 ratings — published 1990
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 97 ratings — published 2007
Distinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,719 ratings — published 1979
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,269 ratings — published 1998
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 540 ratings — published
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,098 ratings — published 1810
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,952,918 ratings — published 1890
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,284 ratings — published 1983
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
