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Art -- Philosophy

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• Art
• Aesthetics
• Arts -- Philosophy
• Philosophy

• Art and philosophy

• Art -- Philosophy -- History
• Architecture -- Philosophy

• Art -- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation
• Beautiful, The
• Beauty

• Dizziness: A Resource (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v24; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2019), ed. by Ruth Anderwald, Karoline Feyertag, and Leonhard Grond (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Platonic Occasions: Dialogues on Literature, Art and Culture (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), by Richard Begam and James Soderholm (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
• Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2011), by Ben Blumson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Point and Line to Plane: Contribution to the Analysis of the Pictorial Elements (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, c1947), by Wassily Kandinsky, ed. by Hilla Rebay, trans. by Howard Dearstyne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aims of Art (London: Office of "The Commonweal", 1887), by William Morris
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Art and the Beauty of the Earth: A Lecture Delivered at Burslem Town Hall on October 13, 1881 (London: Longmans and Co., 1899), by William Morris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Triumph of Art: An Allegory (Sioux Falls, SD: M. D. Scott, c1922), by Clarence J. Schilling
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Art-Work of the Future, by Richard Wagner, trans. by William Ashton Ellis (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• 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)

• Art and Scholasticism, and The Frontiers of Poetry, by Jacques Maritain, trans. by Joseph W. Evans (HTML at Notre Dame)

• Building Black: Towards Antiracist Architecture (Punctum Books, c2022), by Elliot C. Mason (PDF with commentary at Punctum Books)
• The Genius of Architecture; or, The Analogy of That Art with Our Sensations (Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, c1992), by Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières, trans. by David Britt, contrib. by Robin Middleton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas (2015), by Ingrid Böck (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism, and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (c1997), ed. by Martha D. Pollak (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition (based on first and second editions; Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1994), by Hermann Muthesius, ed. by Stanford Anderson (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the "Creative Industries" (London: MayFlyBooks, 2011), ed. by Gerald Raunig, Gene Ray, and Ulf Wuggenig (PDF and HTML with commentary at MayFlyBooks)

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

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