Aesthetics
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
A defence of poetry, by P.B. Shelley
Styles of Radical Will
The Sublime
On the history of film style
Artifacts, art works, and agency
The esthetic basis of Greek art of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C
The birth of tragedy out of the spirit of music
Appréciations
The language of inquiry
Eugénie Grandet
Art's Emotions
The sense of beauty
Artifice and design
The literary criticism of John Ruskin
The practice of writing
On art and architecture
Marius the Epicurean
Zur Farbenlehre
Aesthetics and Photography (Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art)
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
Poetics
William Morris and the aesthetic constitution of politics
Beckett and aesthetics
Ancient art and ritual
Aesthetics
Future Campus
The Sovereignty of Taste
Wyndham Lewis's pictorial integer
Aesthetic Politics in Fashion
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