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• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Russia (Federation)
• Arts -- Experimental methods
• Literature, Experimental
• Postmodernism

• CMOK to YOu To: A Correspondence (Punctum Books, c2016), by Nina Živančević and Marc James Léger
  • PDF with commentary at Punctum Books
  • PDF files with commentary at Project Muse
• Le Petit Journal des Refusées (originally published 1896; this edition 2009), ed. by Johanna Drucker, contrib. by Gelett Burgess (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fluxus Reader (Chicester, UK and New York: Academy Editions, 1998), ed. by Ken Friedman (PDF files at Swinburne Research Bank)

• Situationist International Anthology, ed. by Ken Knabb (HTML at bopsecrets.org)

• Kandinsky in Munich, 1896-1914 (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, c1982), by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, contrib. by Peter Jelavich, Carl E. Schorske, and Peg Weiss, illust. by Wassily Kandinsky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Amazons of the Avant-Garde (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c2000), ed. by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt, illust. by Alexandra Exter, Nataliia Sergeevna Goncharova, Liubov' Sergeevna Popova, Ol'ga Vladimirovna Rozanova, Varvara Fedorovna Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udal'tsova (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2002), by Gennifer S. Weisenfeld (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections From the George Costakis Collection (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, c1981), by Margit Rowell and Angelica Zander Rudenstine (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Black Mountain College Review (1951) (full serial archives)

• The Desperado Age: British Literature at the Start of the Third Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• British Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)
• Alan Brownjohn and the Desperado Age, by Lidia Vianu
  • PDF at liternet.ro
  • HTML at e-scoala.ro (scroll down past the ads)

• The End of Books, or Books Without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by J. Yellowlees Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Yeats and Postmodernism (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1991), ed. by Leonard Orr (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)

• American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of Epistemology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1991), by Ronald E. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts (issues online 1962-1965), ed. by Ed Sanders (partial serial archives)

• 0 to 9 (New York-based literary magazine, 1967-1969), ed. by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer (partial serial archives)

• Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E", by Ernest Vincent Wright (PDF with commentary at holybooks.com)

• 0 to 9 (New York-based literary magazine, 1967-1969), ed. by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer (partial serial archives)

• Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays (compilation of essays published in "boundary 2"; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), ed. by Paul A. Bové (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Chacun sa Quête: Essais sur les Nouveaux Visages de la Transcendance (in French; Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2000), ed. by Yves Boisvert and Lawrence Olivier (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• The Future of Class in History: What's Left of the Social? (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Geoff Eley and Keith Nield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture (second edition, 2001), by Thomas Bridges (PDF at crvp.org)
• The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue With Art (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Lois Oppenheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond, by Douglas Kellner (PDF at UCLA)

• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2015), by John Jervis (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)

• Absolutes or Not (Springfield, MO: Global University, 2009), by David Kowalski (PDF at globalreach.org)
• Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith (New York: Fordham University Press, 2001), by Merold Westphal (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Žižek (c2008), by Geoff Boucher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism, by Steven Shivaro (HTML at dhalgren.com)
• The Electronic Disturbance, by Critical Art Ensemble (PDF files at critical-art.net)

• Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition), by Arthur Kroker (HTML at archive.org)

• An Architecture for Our Time: The New Classicism (2008), by Charles Siegel (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

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

• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2019), by Justin Hodgson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference (Toronto et al.: University of Toronto Press, c2018), by Benjamin Fraser (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Aesthetic Politics in Fashion (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v14; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2014), ed. by Elke Gaugele (PDF with commentary in Austria)
• Romanticism and the Insistence of the Aesthetic (2005), ed. by Forest Pyle (PDF at Romantic Circles)
• On the Spiritual in Art (first complete English translation; New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1946), by Wassily Kandinsky, ed. by Hilla Rebay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• Aesthetik: oder Wissenschaft des Schönen (3 volumes (third in multiple parts), in German; 1846-1857), by Friedrich Theodor Vischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Concerning the Spiritual in Art, by Wassily Kandinsky, trans. by Michael Sadleir (Gutenberg text)
• The Desire of Beauty: Being Indications for Aesthetic Culture (London: J. R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892), by Theodore Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on the Beautiful, etc.: or, Elements of Aesthetic Philosophy (second edition; London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1860), by Vincenzo Gioberti, trans. by Edward Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays Aesthetical (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875), by George Henry Calvert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Estetica, Come Scienza dell'Espressione e Linguistica Generale: Teoria e Storia (third revised edition, in Italian; Bari: Gius. Laterza et Figli, 1908), by Benedetto Croce
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Estética, Como Ciencia de la Expresión y Lingüística General: Teoria é historia de la estética (in Spanish; Madrid: F. Beltrán, 1912), by Benedetto Croce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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
• 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)
• Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life, by Vernon Lee (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1854), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich Schiller (HTML at Fordham)
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Principles of Aesthetics, by De Witt H. Parker (Gutenberg text)
• The Psychology of Beauty, by Ethel Puffer Howes (Gutenberg text)
• The Science of Aesthetics, by Henry Noble Day (page images at MOA)
• The Science of Beauty, As Developed in Nature and Applied in Art (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1861), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
• Skönhet för Alla: Fyra Uppsatser (in Swedish; Stockholm: A. Bonnier, 1899), by Ellen Key (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and Meaning (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932), by Elizabeth Robinson Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cult of Beauty in Charles Baudelaire (2 volumes; New York: Institute of French studies, Columbia university, 1929), by S. A. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Birth of Tragedy: or, Hellenism and Pessimism (from the Complete Works v1), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by William A. Haussmann
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • HTML in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
• The Laws of Harmonious Colouring, Adapted to Interior Decorations, Manufactures, and Other Useful Purposes (London: W. S. Orr and Co.; Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, 1838), by D. R. Hay (multiple formats at archiuve.org)

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