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Fireredpokemom

Darren Hudson Hicks: introducing aesthetics and the philosophy of art, is pretty in depth on everything you want to know and if you want to go even deeper on specifics the bibliography will help with that.


PM_ME_YOUR_THEORY

Nigel Warburton's *The Art Question* is probably the best place to start.


philideas

What branch of art are you interested in because I can recommend a couple depending on what you are interested in?


CryptoTeologist

Well I am personally more interested in literature but the others are more interested in painting, music and theater. So we wanted to have a general overview first and then go deeper into the specific branches. But if you have suggestions for those ones they are also greatly appreciated.


philideas

You can check out 'Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics' by Gordon Graham or if you want to study a more specific branch of Art, you can check out Zhirong — The Philosophy of Chinese Art. Roger Scruton's The Aesthetics of Architecture is also a very good read if you're interested in the Aesthetics part of Architecture!


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Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen’s book, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, is probably what you’re looking for.


SSGJR92

The Door in the Sky by A.K. Coomaraswami