Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes
1980 · 2020 edition
146 pages
The most popular aesthetics books
Aesthetics is the philosophy of art and beauty. Why do some things move us, is taste only personal, and what makes something a work of art? These books think carefully about painting, music, literature and nature, and will sharpen the way you look and listen.
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Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy
Published 1990
128 pages
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf
Published 1990
276 pages
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
Walter Benjamin
2008 · 2011 edition
320 pages
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
2005 · 2017 edition
211 pages
On Ugliness
Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen
Published 2007
456 pages
Interaction of Color
Joseph Albers
1971 · 2006 edition
160 pages
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton
Published 2006
280 pages
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche, Original Thinkers Institute
1974 · 2025 edition
255 pages
About Looking
John Berger
1980 · 2009 edition
205 pages
Shop Class as Soulcraft
Matthew B. Crawford
Published 2009
246 pages
Art Forms in Nature The Prints of Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Olaf Breidbach, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Richard P. Hartmann
Published 1998
139 pages
Against Interpretation And Other Essays
Susan Sontag
1978 · 2025 edition
336 pages
The Art of Rhetoric
Aristotle, Harvey Yunis, John Henry Freese
1992 · 2023 edition
252 pages
De Anima
Aristotle, C. D. C. Reeve
1975 · 2018 edition
152 pages
Postmodern Condition The Postmodern Condition
Jean-François Lyotard
Published 1984
110 pages
Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Leonard Koren
1994 · 2008 edition
94 pages
Art and illusion
E. H. Gombrich
1972 · 1977 edition
386 pages
Art as Experience
John Dewey
2005 · 2025 edition
457 pages
Design as Art
Bruno Munari
1971 · 2009 edition
224 pages
Small Is Beautiful
E. F. Schumacher
1973 · 2011 edition
336 pages
What We See When We Read
Peter Mendelsund
Published 2014
448 pages
The Eyes of the Skin
Juhani Pallasmaa
1996 · 2005 edition
80 pages
The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes, Richard Howard
1975 · 1990 edition
67 pages