Cinema
Gilles Deleuze
Published 1986
250 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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Philosophy
Edward Craig
Published 2002
132 pages
But is it Art? An Introduction to Art Theory
Cynthia A. Freeland
Published 2001
231 pages
The Art of Creative Thinking
Rod Judkins
Published 2015
288 pages
Creativity Code
Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 2019
336 pages
Unbearable Weight
Susan Bordo
Published 1993
362 pages
The Art Instinct Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution
Denis Dutton
2009 · 2010 edition
282 pages
What Artists Wear
Charlie Porter
Published 2021
376 pages
All That's Good Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment
Hannah Anderson
Published 2018
224 pages
Survival of the Prettiest The Science of Beauty
Nancy Etcoff
Published 1999
325 pages
The Landscape of History:How Historians Map the Past How Historians Map the Past
John Lewis Gaddis
Published 2002
208 pages
Postmodernism A Very Short Introduction
Christopher Butler
Published 2002
142 pages
The Gift
Lewis Hyde
1983 · 2012 edition
384 pages
Three Uses of the Knife On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
David Mamet
2000 · 2020 edition
64 pages
Vibrate Higher Daily
Lalah Delia
Published 2019
240 pages
Film Art
David Bordwell
1979 · 2024 edition
496 pages
On Beauty and Being Just
Elaine Scarry
1999 · 2006 edition
144 pages
Your Brain on Art How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen, Ivy Ross
Published 2023
304 pages
Why We Make Things and why it Matters The Education of a Craftsman
Peter Korn
2013 · 2017 edition
192 pages
The Life of the Mind
Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy - undifferentiated
1978 · 1981 edition
521 pages
The Art of Memory
Frances Amelia Yates
1992 · 2014 edition
448 pages
The Politics of Aesthetics
Jacques Rancière
2005 · 2006 edition
116 pages
From a Logical Point of View
Willard Van Orman Quine
1980 · 1963 edition
184 pages
Beauty
Roger Scruton
Published 2009
223 pages