Aesthetics

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• Philosophy

• Art
• Criticism
• Literature -- Psychology
• Symmetry

• Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800
• Aesthetics -- Fiction
• Aesthetics -- History
• Aesthetics -- Periodicals
• Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
• Aesthetic movement (Art)
• Aesthetics, British
• Aesthetics, German
• Aesthetics, Modern
• Art -- Philosophy
• Art and literature
• Art for art's sake (Movement)
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
• Classicism
• Cubism
• Expressionism (Art)
• Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
• Form (Aesthetics)
• Futurism (Art)
• Idealism in art
• Impressionism (Art)
• Judgment (Aesthetics)
• Lettrism
• Mass media -- Aesthetics
• Motion pictures -- Aesthetics
• Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
• Naturalism in art
• Nature (Aesthetics)
• Object (Aesthetics)
• Post-impressionism (Art)
• Rhythm
• Romanticism
• Sublime, The
• Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
• Values
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Aesthetics
• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Aesthetics
• Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Aesthetics
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 -- Aesthetics
• Simic, Charles, 1938- -- Aesthetics
• Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 -- Aesthetics

• Beautiful, The
• Beauty
• Esthetics
• Taste (Aesthetics)

• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, by Benedetto Croce, trans. by Douglas Ainslie (Gutenberg text)
• Aesthetics: or, The Science of Beauty (New York and Chicago: Potter, Ainsworth, and Co., 1871), by John Bascom (page images at MOA)
• Aesthetics: or, The Science of Beauty (New York and Chicago: Woolworth, Ainsworth, and Co., 1872), by John Bascom (page images at MOA)
• Ancient Art and Ritual, by Jane Ellen Harrison (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions (London: W. Satchell and Co., n.d.), by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text)
• The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian C. Johnston
  • HTML in Canada
  • PDF with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
• Concerning the Spiritual in Art, by Wassily Kandinsky, trans. by Michael Sadleir (Gutenberg text)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hegel's Aesthetics: A Critical Exposition (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1885), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by John Steinfort Kedney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Introduction a une Esthétique Scientifique (in French; Paris: La Revue contemporaine, 1885), by Charles Henry
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1886), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by Bernard Bosanquet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life, by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich Schiller (HTML at Fordham)
• Music and Meaning (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932), by Elizabeth Robinson Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the Spiritual in Art (first complete English translation; New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1946), by Wassily Kandinsky, ed. by Hilla Rebay
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of Art: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1886), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Karl Ludwig Michelet, trans. by W. Hastie
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of Art: Being the Second Part of Hegel's Aesthetik, in Which are Unfolded Historically the Three Great Fundamental Phases of the Art-Activity of the World (New York: D. Appleton and Co., c1879), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by William McKendree Bryant (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Principles of Aesthetics, by De Witt H. Parker (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Beauty, by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes (Gutenberg text)
• The Science of Aesthetics, by Henry Noble Day (page images at MOA)
• The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory (New York et al: Charles Scribner's Sons, c1896), by George Santayana
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
• Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
• The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
• A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
• Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Adelaide)
• Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)

• Against the Grain (New York: Lieber and Lewis, 1922), by J.-K. Huysmans, trans. by John Howard
  • HTML at hxa7241.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Against the Grain, by J.-K. Huysmans, contrib. by Havelock Ellis (HTML at Eldritch Press)

• Psychoanalytic Aesthetics: The British School, by Nicola Glover (HTML at psychoanalysis-and-therapy.com)

• The Art-Work of the Future, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at belgacom.net)
• Hegel's Aesthetics: A Critical Exposition (Chicago: S. C. Griggs and Co., 1885), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by John Steinfort Kedney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1886), by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ed. by Bernard Bosanquet (multiple formats at archive.org)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich Schiller (HTML at Fordham)
• The Responsibility of the Artist, by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)

• A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, Original and Selected (second edition, corrected; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, Original and Selected : Part I, Ethics and Character, Part II, Literature and Art (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Elsie Bonita Adams (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Le Petit Journal des Refusées (originally published 1896; this edition 2009), ed. by Johanna Drucker, contrib. by Gelett Burgess (PDF and Epub with commentary at cnx.org)

• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modern Painting: Its Tendency and Meaning (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists (c1961), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ed. by H. H. Amason
  • Flash with commentary at guggenheim.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lynn S. Chancer (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• The Beautiful: An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913), by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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