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Aesthetics: The Philosophy of Art
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Over de esthetiek
by:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3.61 avg rating β 222 ratings
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Critique of Judgment
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Immanuel Kant
4.09 avg rating β 9,512 ratings
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On the Aesthetic Education of Man
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Friedrich Schiller
3.94 avg rating β 1,789 ratings
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Aesthetic Theory
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Theodor W. Adorno
4.14 avg rating β 2,573 ratings
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The Republic
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Plato
3.96 avg rating β 220,195 ratings
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What Is Art?
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Leo Tolstoy
3.73 avg rating β 3,537 ratings
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
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Eric R. Kandel
4.21 avg rating β 1,811 ratings
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The Philosophy of Art: Being the Second Part of Hegel's Aesthetic
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4.12 avg rating β 16 ratings
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The Symposium
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Plato
4.09 avg rating β 85,852 ratings
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The Birth of Tragedy / The Case of Wagner
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Friedrich Nietzsche
4.17 avg rating β 3,422 ratings
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The Philosophy of Art (Volume 58) (Theory and History of Literature)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
3.88 avg rating β 109 ratings
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Diderot on Art, Volume II: The Salon of 1767
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Denis Diderot
4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Art as Experience
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John Dewey
3.94 avg rating β 5,774 ratings
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History of Beauty
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Umberto Eco
3.83 avg rating β 65,525 ratings
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Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
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Immanuel Kant
3.56 avg rating β 1,096 ratings
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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature
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JosΓ© Ortega y Gasset
3.81 avg rating β 1,324 ratings
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An essay on the beautiful
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Plotinus
3.80 avg rating β 130 ratings
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Edmund Burke
3.69 avg rating β 2,670 ratings
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The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art
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Arthur C. Danto
4.07 avg rating β 264 ratings
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Poetry, Language, Thought
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Martin Heidegger
4.11 avg rating β 3,638 ratings
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Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger
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Albert Hofstadter
4.06 avg rating β 246 ratings
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The Aesthetics of Music
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Roger Scruton
3.96 avg rating β 92 ratings
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Theory of Colours
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,067 ratings
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Γsthetic: As science of expression and general linguistic
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Benedetto Croce
3.85 avg rating β 89 ratings
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The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
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George Santayana
3.82 avg rating β 342 ratings
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Modern Art & Death of a Culture
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Hans R. Rookmaaker
4.14 avg rating β 346 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
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John Berger
3.93 avg rating β 418,823 ratings
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What Art Is
by:
Arthur C. Danto
3.68 avg rating β 886 ratings
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The Poetics of Space
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Gaston Bachelard
4.18 avg rating β 10,888 ratings
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Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
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David Hume
3.81 avg rating β 86 ratings
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On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought
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Denis Diderot
3.94 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion's Creative Dream
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Johann Gottfried Herder
3.72 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.83 avg rating β 533 ratings
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Essays on Music
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Theodor W. Adorno
3.99 avg rating β 256 ratings
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art
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Wassily Kandinsky
3.84 avg rating β 90,610 ratings
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Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic (Volume 61) (Theory and History of Literature)
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Theodor W. Adorno
3.90 avg rating β 69 ratings
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The Invention of Art: A Cultural History
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Larry Shiner
4.25 avg rating β 302 ratings
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Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
4.08 avg rating β 13 ratings
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Metaphysics
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Aristotle
4.07 avg rating β 17,692 ratings
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The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film
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Stanley Cavell
3.98 avg rating β 266 ratings
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Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader
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Christopher Kul-Want
4.05 avg rating β 43 ratings
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Thoughts on Art and Style
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Denis Diderot
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Phenomenology of Perception
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
4.18 avg rating β 6,330 ratings
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What Is Philosophy?
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Gilles Deleuze
4.15 avg rating β 2,273 ratings
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Art and Aesthetics after Adorno
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J.M. Bernstein
3.73 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Aesthetics and Politics
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Theodor W. Adorno
4.12 avg rating β 2,296 ratings
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Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction
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NoΓ«l Carroll
3.87 avg rating β 196 ratings
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Aesthetic Inquiry: Essays on Art Criticism and the Philosophy of Art
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Monroe C. Beardsley
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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On Ugliness
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Umberto Eco
3.88 avg rating β 18,990 ratings
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Languages of Art
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Nelson Goodman
3.87 avg rating β 250 ratings
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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
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Umberto Eco
3.97 avg rating β 1,510 ratings
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On Beauty: Three Discourses Delivered in the University of Edinburgh: with an Exposition of ...
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John Stuart Blackie
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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
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Michel Foucault
4.14 avg rating β 288 ratings
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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
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Jean-FranΓ§ois Lyotard
3.88 avg rating β 80 ratings
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Dionysius Longinus On The Sublime (1838)
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Longinus
3.84 avg rating β 1,032 ratings
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Aesthetics and Subjectivity: From Kant to Nietzsche
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Andrew Bowie
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 79 ratings
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Western Art and the Meanderings of a Culture (The Complete Works of Hans R. Rookmaaker, #4)
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Hans R. Rookmaaker
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Theoria: Art & The Absence Of Grace
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Peter Fuller
4.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Story of Art
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E.H. Gombrich
3.96 avg rating β 448,908 ratings
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
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Frank Wilczek
3.87 avg rating β 1,465 ratings
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Which "Aesthetics" Do You Mean?: Ten Definitions
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Leonard Koren
3.42 avg rating β 116 ratings
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Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
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Joanna Demers
3.97 avg rating β 117 ratings
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Frammenti per un'estetica del quotidiano
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Maurizio BonfΓ
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Re-Enchantment
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James Elkins
4.13 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Aesthetica
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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
3.26 avg rating β 19 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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Christopher W. Alexander
4.42 avg rating β 5,326 ratings
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Where Art and Faith Converge
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Michael B. Fitzgerald
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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Arthur Schopenhauer
4.22 avg rating β 10,850 ratings
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Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Criticism: A Critical Introduction
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Jerome Stolnitz
4.38 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Gesamtkunstwerk Π‘ΡΠ°Π»ΠΈΠ½
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Boris Groys
4.04 avg rating β 269 ratings
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Of the Standard of Taste
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David Hume
3.34 avg rating β 319 ratings
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The Optics of Ibn Al-Haytham: On Direct Vision Books 1-3 (Two Volume Set) (Studies of the Warburg Institute)
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ibn al-Haytham
4.50 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion
by:
Carl Plantinga
3.44 avg rating β 36 ratings
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On the Musically Beautiful: a Contribution Towards the Revision of the Aesthetics of Music
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Eduard Hanslick
3.62 avg rating β 135 ratings
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Thinking with Things: Toward a New Vision of Art
by:
Esther Pasztory
4.10 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Art
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Clive Bell
3.68 avg rating β 263 ratings
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Diderot on Art, Volume I: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting (Salon of 1765 & Notes on Painting)
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Denis Diderot
3.57 avg rating β 14 ratings
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The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records
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Albin Zak
3.86 avg rating β 22 ratings
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Rhythm and Noise : Aesthetics of Rock
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Thodore Gracyk
3.85 avg rating β 27 ratings
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Space, Time and Culture (Contributions to Phenomenology, 51)
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David Carr
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Wagnerian Sublime: Four Lacanian Readings of Classic Operas (Lacanian Explorations, #2)
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Slavoj Ε½iΕΎek
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact
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Colin McGinn
3.28 avg rating β 134 ratings
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Essais sur la peinture: Salons de 1759, 1761, 1763
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Denis Diderot
3.68 avg rating β 19 ratings
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The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style
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Paul Crowther
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Limits of Art: Two Essays
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Tzvetan Todorov
3.71 avg rating β 85 ratings
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Film Art Phenomena
by:
Nicky Hamlyn
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Art and Its Significance: An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory
by:
Stephen David Ross
3.92 avg rating β 84 ratings
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About Looking
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John Berger
4.09 avg rating β 9,052 ratings
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Phenomenology and art
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JosΓ© Ortega y Gasset
3.89 avg rating β 19 ratings
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Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: An Introduction
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Robert Stecker
3.65 avg rating β 37 ratings
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Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Biology, and Ontology (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
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Veronique M. Foti
3.57 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
by:
Matthew Kieran
3.89 avg rating β 19 ratings
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The Merleau-Ponty Reader (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
by:
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
4.46 avg rating β 50 ratings
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Art in Context: Understanding Aesthetic Value
by:
David E.W. Fenner
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue in Two Treatises
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Francis Hutcheson
3.62 avg rating β 37 ratings
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Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude
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Gemma Blackshaw
4.10 avg rating β 21 ratings
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Malevich and The American Legacy
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Yve-Alain Bois
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Installation Art
by:
Claire Bishop
4.09 avg rating β 219 ratings
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The Philosophy of Art
by:
Stephen Davies
3.71 avg rating β 66 ratings
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The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg
by:
Takashi Murakami
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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