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Aesthetics
American Society for Aesthetics
The ASA supports research, scholarship, and discussion in aesthetics. The ASA website includes teaching resources, guides for students interested in graduate studies, online articles and book reviews, and conference information.
Critique of aesthetic judgement
Kant, Immanuel. (Clarendon Press, 1911)McNichols Campus Library
B2783.E5 M51
"Translated with seven introductory essays, notes, and analytical index, by James Creed Meredith."
McNichols Campus Library
N64 .H45
Translated and annotated by F. P. B. Osmaston.
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
Burke, Edmund. (University of Notre Dame Press, 1968)McNichols Campus Library
BH 181 .B95
"Edited with and introduction and notes by James T. Boulton."
Art and visual perception : a psychology of the creative eye
Arnheim, Rudolf. (rev. ed., University of California Press, 1974)McNichols Campus Library
N71 .A67 1974
Art and imagination : a study in the philosophy of mind
Scruton, Roger. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982, c1974)McNichols Campus Library
BH 301 .J8 S37 1982
Aesthetics: problems in the philosophy of criticism
Beardsley, Monroe C.. (Harcourt, Brace1958)McNichols Campus Library
BH 201 .B36
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Available through JSTOR.
language of art & art criticism : analytic questions in aesthetics
Margolis, Joseph. (Wayne State University Press, 1965)McNichols Campus Library
BH 201 .M32
The field of cultural production : essays on art and literature
Bourdieu, Pierre. (Columbia University Press, 1993)McNichols Campus Library
NX 180 .S6 B68 1993
"edited and introduced by Randal Johnson."
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N 72 .M32
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N66 .W37
Art and the aesthetic : an institutional analysis
Dickie, George. (Cornell University Press, 1974)McNichols Campus Library
BH 39 .D55a
The century of taste : the philosophical odyssey of taste in the eighteenth century
Dickie, George. (Oxford University Press, 1996)McNichols Campus Library
BH 181 .D53 1996
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N70 .H74 1946
Feeling and form; a theory of art
Langer, Susanne Katherina Knauth. (Scribner, 1953)McNichols Campus Library
BF458 .L29
Art and its objects : with six supplementary essays
Wollheim, Richard. (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1980)McNichols Campus Library
BH 39 .W64 1980
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NX 180 .M3 C37 1998
Of the standard of taste, and other essays
Hume, David. (Bobbs-Merrill, 1965)McNichols Campus Library
B 1455 .L57
Edited with an introduction by John W. Lenz.
McNichols Campus Library
N 70 .C71
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BH 151 .E2 1990
Creativity and Taoism; a study of Chinese philosophy, art & poetry
Chung-yuan, Chang. (Harper & Row 1970, c1963)McNichols Campus Library
BL 1923 .C5 1970
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BQ 9262.9 .J3 S9 1970
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PL 839 .A7 A25 1977
"Foreword by Charles Moore ; afterword by Thomas J. Harper ; translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker."
Literary and art theories in Japan
Ueda, Makoto. (Press of Western Reserve University, 1967)McNichols Campus Library
PL708 .U33
August Wilson and Black aesthetics
Williams, Dana A.; Shannon, Sandra G. (eds.). (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)McNichols Campus Library
PS 3573 .I45677 Z57 2004
The mask of art : breaking the aesthetic contract--film and literature
Taylor, Clyde. (Indiana University Press, 1998)McNichols Campus Library
PN 1995.9 .N4 T38 1998
African philosophy as cultural inquiry
Karp, Ivan; Masolo, D. A.. (Indiana University Press, 2000)McNichols Campus Library
B 5305 .A373 2000
Romantic confusions of the good : beauty as truth, truth beauty
Montgomery, Marion. (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997)McNichols Campus Library
PR 575 .A34 M66 1997
Mapping Benjamin : the work of art in the digital age
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich; Marrinan, Michael (eds.). (Stanford University Press, 2003)McNichols Campus Library
BH 201 .M298 2003
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