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In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,678 ratings — published 1933
Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,606 ratings — published 1970
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 437,640 ratings — published 1972
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,687 ratings — published -335
Critique of Judgment (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,731 ratings — published 1790
Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,839 ratings — published 2009
On the Aesthetic Education of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,865 ratings — published 1794
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,406 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 — 2,776 ratings — published 1757
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,103 ratings — published
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,767 ratings — published 2004
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,622 ratings — published 1936
Aesthetics and Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,327 ratings — published 1977
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,257 ratings — published 1957
Art as Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,803 ratings — published 1934
The Politics of Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,763 ratings — published 2000
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,033 ratings — published 1973
What Is Art? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,672 ratings — published 1897
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,113 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Tea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,696 ratings — published 1906
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,511 ratings — published 1955
![Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1312018081l/497164._SX50_.jpg)
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,938 ratings — published 1980
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 7,919 ratings — published 1994
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,440 ratings — published 1966
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,686 ratings — published 1971
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 348 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 — 255 ratings — published 1976
On Beauty and Being Just (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,740 ratings — published 1999
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,969 ratings — published 1912
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 22,633 ratings — published 2003
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,109 ratings — published 1981
The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 464 ratings — published 1977
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 200 ratings — published 1999
The Arcades Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,083 ratings — published 1982
The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 464,562 ratings — published 1950
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 22 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,068 ratings — published 1
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,537 ratings — published 1987
Languages of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 260 ratings — published 1968
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 90,739 ratings — published -380
Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,007 ratings — published 1950
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 449 ratings — published
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086 ratings — published 1810
The Ideology of the Aesthetic (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 339 ratings — published 1990
Relational Aesthetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,261 ratings — published 1998
After the End of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,058 ratings — published 1997
Phenomenology of Perception (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,452 ratings — published 1945
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 412 ratings — published 2003
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,279 ratings — published 1983
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.56 — 515 ratings — published
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
by (shelved 17 times as aesthetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 94 ratings — published 2007
“Art becomes so specialized as to be comprehensible only to artists, and they complain bitterly of public indifference to their work.
Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.”
― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Competition arises. The wild battle for success becomes more and more material. Small groups who have fought their way to the top of the chaotic world of art and picture-making entrench themselves in the territory they have won. The public, left far behind, looks on bewildered, loses interest and turns away.”
― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
“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 point b.”
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