Selected Prose Works
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Published 1889
534 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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Selections from Manuscripts
James Hinton
Published 1874
644 pages
Readings in John Ruskin's Fors Clavigera, 1871-1884
John Ruskin
Published 1899
220 pages
Aesthetics, Dreams and Association of Ideas
James Sully, George C. Robertson
Published 1888
66 pages
An Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke
Published 1887
208 pages
Modern Painters
John Ruskin
Published 1872
500 pages
Modern Painters
John Ruskin
Published 1887
512 pages
The immortality of the Maestro Galuppi. Perigot. Lombard colour studies. Don Juan (con Stenterello) Signor Curiazio. Christkindchen. Epilogue
Vernon Lee
Published 1887
234 pages
Kant's Kritik of Judgment
John Henry Bernard, Immanuel Kant
Published 1892
492 pages
The Principles of Beauty as Manifested in Nature, Art, and Human Character
Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck
Published 1859
468 pages
The Principles of Beauty in Colouring Systematized
David Ramsay Hay
Published 1845
142 pages
Three essays
William Gilpin
Published 1808
238 pages
Aristotle's theory of poetry and fine art
Aristotle, Samuel Henry Butcher
Published 1898
462 pages
Fors Clavigera
John Ruskin
Published 1887
538 pages
Poetry as a Representative Art
George Lansing Raymond
Published 1898
384 pages
Fors Clavigers
John Ruskin
Published 1885
904 pages
Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated
Aristotle, Thomas Twining
Published 1812
378 pages
Index to Fors Clavigera
John Ruskin, John Pincher Faunthorpe
Published 1887
528 pages
An Historical Inquiry Into the True Principles of Beauty in Art
James Fergusson
Published 1849
584 pages
The True and the Beautiful
John Ruskin
Published 1859
494 pages
Art and the Formation of Taste
Lucy Crane, Charles Goodrich Whiting
Published 1885
216 pages
The Old and New Churches of London
Alfred Capes
Published 1880
136 pages
On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Karl Hillebrand, Restoration Restoration Editors
Published 1891
428 pages
Sensation and Intuition
James Sully
Published 1874
384 pages