Joseph Kosuth (1945) Art after Philosophy
Roger Scruton (1944) Art And Imagination, The Aesthetic Understanding
Umberto Eco (1932) The Aesthetics of Thomas
Aquinas, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989) The Idea of Absolute Music
Stanley Louis Cavell (1926) The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film
Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) Cinema 1: The Movement-Image,
Cinema 2: The Time-Image, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
Arthur Coleman Danto (1924) Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical
Present,
Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays and Aesthetic Meditations
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
Milan Damnjanovic (1924-1994) Aesthetics and Disappointment
Michel Henry (1922-2002) Voir l'invisible, sur Kandinsky
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (1908-1992) Serve it Forth, The Art of Eating
Madeleine Doran (1905-1996)
Rudolf Arnheim (1904) Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Virgil Aldrich (1903-1998) Philosophy of Art
Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) Philosophy of Modern Music, Aesthetic Theory
Eli Siegel (1902-1978) Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism
Tudor Vianu (1898-1964) The Dualism of Art, Art and Beauty
Susanne Langer (1895-1985) Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art
Mikhail Mikhailovitch Bakhtin (1895-1975) Toward a Philosophy of the Act
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) The Art of Seeing, The Doors of Perception
I. A. Richards (1893-1979) The Foundations of Aesthetics, Principles of Literary Criticism
Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) "Untersuchungen zur Ontologie der Kunst: Musikwerk.
Bild. Architektur. Film," "Erlebnis, Kunstwerk und Wert. Vorträge zur Ästhetik"
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit
Robin George Collingwood (1889-1943) Outlines of a Philosophy of Art, The Principles of Art
Dimitrije Mitrinovic (1887-1953) Aesthetic Contemplations
Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz (1886-1980) History of Aesthetics
Alain LeRoy Locke (1886-1954) The Negro and his music
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939)
Leon Chwistek (1884-1944)
Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) Peinture et réalité, Introduction aux arts du Beau
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
Moritz Schlick (1882-1936)
Curt John Ducasse (1881-1969)
Clive Bell (1881-1964) Art
Paul Haeberlin (1878-1960) Aesthetics
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) Estheics
George Santayana (1863-1952) The Sense of Beauty
André Michelin (1853-1931) Le Guide Michelin
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Über Musik, The Birth of Tragedy
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) Aesthetic Studies, The French Aesthetics of the Present Day
Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) Kant's Begründung der Aesthetik
Eduard von Hartmann (1842-1906) Die Philosophie des Schönen
Walter Pater (1839-1894) Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911)
Gustav Teichmüller (1832-1888) Beiträge zur Poetik
des Aristoteles, Aristoteles’ Philosophie der Kunst
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) What Is Art?
Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) La Philosophie de l'Art, L'Idéal dans l'Art
Hermann Theodor Hettner (1821-1882) Vorschule zur bildenden Kunst der Alten, Die
neapolitanischenMalerschulen, Die romantische Schule in ihrem Zusammenhang mit Goethe und Schiller
John Ruskin (1819-1900) Modern Painters, The Poetry of Architecture
Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817-1881) Ueber den Begriff der Schönheit, Ueber
Bedingungen
der Kunstschönheit, Geschichte der Aesthetik in Deutschland
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Theodor Mundt (1808-1861) Aesthetik, die Idee der Schönheit und des Kunstwerks im Lichte unserer Zeit
Heinrich Gustav Hotho (1802-1873)
Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) Vorschule der Ästhetik
Théodore Simon Jouffroy (1796-1842) Cours d'esthetique
Victor Cousin (1792-1867) Du vrai, du beau, et du bien
Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) Briefe über Landschaftsmalerei,
Die Lebenskunst nach den Inschriften des Tempels zu Delphi
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Über das Sehn
und
die Farben, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand (1786-1851) Aesthetik der Tonkunst
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (1780-1890) Erwin, Vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst
Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778-1841) System der Kunstlehre, Grundriss der Aesthetik
Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776-1841) The Science of
Education and the Aesthetic Revelation of the World
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) Lectures on Aesthetics
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) On the Aesthetic Education of Man
Archibald Alison (1757-1839) Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) Physiologie du goût
Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824) An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) Calligone, On the
Influence of
the Beautiful Sciences on the Higher Sciences
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) A Philosophical Enquiry into
the
Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) The Critique of Judgment,
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
Mark Akenside (1721-1770) The Pleasures of the Imagination
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762) coined the term aesthetics
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Essai sur la peinture, Salons
David Hume (1711-1776) Of the Standard of Taste
William Hogarth (1697-1764) The Analysis of Beauty
Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design
Shaftesbury (1671-1713) Discourse on the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Etching, &c.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Leone Battista Alberti (1404-1472) On painting
Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443) Fūshi kaden
Abhinavagupta (fl. 975-1025)
Anandavardhana (820-890)
Longinus (200) On the Sublime
Horace (65-8 bc) The Art of Poetry
Philodemus (110 bc) On Poems
Epicurus (341-270 bc)
Aristotle (384-322 bc) Poetics, Rhetoric