Sources of Excerpts

Batteux, Charles. The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle. Anonymous translation published as The fine arts, or, A dissertation on poetry painting, music, architecture, and eloquence, 1749. Republished in The Free-Mason’s Magazine, Vol. III, London, 1795.

Bell, Clive. Art. London, 1914.

Bullough, Edward. “Psychical Distanceʹ as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle.” British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 5, 1912.

Eliot, Thomas Stearns. “Hamlet and His Problems,” in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London, 1920.

Hanslick, Eduard. On the Musically Beautiful. Translated by Gustav Cohen. London, 1891.

Hume, David. History of England, Volume V, Part 1. London, 1754.

Kant, Immanuel. Kant’s Critique of Judgement. Edited and translated by J.H. Bernard. London, 1914.

Keats, John. The Complete Works of John Keats, Vol IV, Letters 1814-1819, edited by H. Buxton Forman. Glasgow, 1901.

Plato. The Republic, Vol. 2. Translated by Paul Shorey. London, 1935.

Stieglitz, Alfred. Letter to J. Dudley Johnston, April 3 1925, in Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, D.C., 1983

Stieglitz, Alfred. “Pictorial Photography.” Scribner’s Magazine 26 (November 1899).

Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Alymer Maude. New York, 1899.

Vasari, Giorgio. Stories of Italian Artists from Vasari. Translated by E.L. Seely. New York, 1906.

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London, 1929.

Further Explorations (suitable as introductory level reading)

Bicknell, Jeanette. A Philosophy of Song and Singing: An Introduction. New York, 2015.

Dadlez, Eva M. Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume. New York, 2009.

Danto, Arthur C. What Art Is. New Haven, CT: 2013.

Dissanayake, Ellen, Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why. New York, 1992.

Eno, Brian, and Bette Adriaanse. What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory. London, 2025.

Freeland, Cynthia. Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, 2007.

Gracyk, Theodore. The Philosophy of Art: An Introduction. London, 2011.

Hick, Darren Hudson. Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A Case-Driven Approach, 3rd ed. London, 2023.

Higgins, Kathleen. The Music of Our Lives, new edition. Lanham, MD: 2011.

Koren, Leonard. Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers.  Point Reyes, 2008.

Korsmeyer, Carolyn. Gender and Aesthetics: An Introduction (Understanding Feminist Philosophy). New York, 2004.

Langer, Suzanne. Feeling and Form. New York, 1953.

Nochlin, Linda. “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” ARTnews, January 1971.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art. Oxford, 2017.

Worth, Sarah. “Art and Epistemology.”  Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/art-and-epistemology/