The Analysis of Beauty
William Hogarth
Published 1772
192 pages
Free 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. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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An Inquiry Into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
Francis Hutcheson
Published 1753
346 pages
Moving pictures
Anne Hollander
Published 1989
512 pages
In pursuit of beauty
Doreen Bolger Burke
Published 1986
511 pages
Aesthetics as philosophy of perception
Bence Nanay
Published 2016
214 pages
Modern Painters ...
John Ruskin
1857 · 1878 edition
524 pages
Between stillness and motion
Eivind Røssaak
2010 · 2011 edition
239 pages
Mental imagery
Bence Nanay
Published 2023
310 pages
And Another Thing Nonanthropocentrism and Art
Katherine Behar, Emmy Mikelson
Published 2016
86 pages
Culture, Behavior, Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published 1870
386 pages
Explaining imagination
Peter Langland-Hassan
Published 2020
313 pages
Elements of Criticism
Lord Henry Home Kames
Published 1763
454 pages
The arts and crafts of literacy
Andrea Brigaglia, Mauro Nobili
Published 2017
377 pages
Obiter dicta
Erick Verran
Published 2021
385 pages
Fors Clavigera
John Ruskin
Published 1894
492 pages
Manuscripts and archives
Manuscripts and Archives Hamburg
Published 2018
462 pages
A Musicology of Performance
Dorottya Fabian
Published 2015
339 pages
The Renaissance
Walter Pater
Published 1899
284 pages
The Ideal in Art
Hippolyte Taine
Published 1874
210 pages
The Works of John Ruskin
John Ruskin
Published 1885
636 pages
Hegel's Æsthetics
John Steinfort Kedney
Published 1885
338 pages
Dictionary of Visual Discourse
Barry Sandywell
Published 1872
274 pages
Journal of Badiou Studies 5 Architheater
Johannes Schick, Aline Wiame, Arthur Rose, Adi Efal-Lautenschläger, Michael J. Kelley, Daniel Whistler, Martin Puchner, Marc Belderbos, Renaud Pleitinx
Published 2017
146 pages
Bron
Erik Odijk
Published 2005
247 pages