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The Birth of Tragedy
1872 essay by Friedrich Nietzsche

The World as Will and Representation
non-fiction work by Arthur Schopenhauer
Critique of Judgment
1790 book by Immanuel Kant

A Mathematician's Apology
1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy

The Doors of Perception
1954 essay by Aldous Huxley

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
1757 treatise on aesthetics by Edmund Burke

What Is Art?
1897 short story by Leo Tolstoy

The Book of Tea
long essay

The Story of Art
book by Ernst Gombrich

Aesthetic Theory
essay by Theodor W. Adorno
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature
essay by Erich Auerbach
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
work by Immanuel Kant

The Origin of the Work of Art
book

Languages of Art
1968 work by book by Nelson Goodman
The Singular Objects of Architecture
book by Jean Baudrillard

The Romantic Manifesto
book by Ayn Rand