Art and Aesthetics thread
https://u.pomf.is/acaqnp.pdf
>rainer maria rilke - rodin (illustrated)
>Philipp Spitta - Johann Sebastian Bach : his work and influence on the music of Germany
https://archive.org/details/johannsebastianb01spituoft
https://archive.org/details/johannsebastia02spit
https://archive.org/details/johannsebastianb03spituoft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Spitta
>John G. Landels - music in ancient greece and rome
https://u.pomf.is/jlcmos.pdf
>James Haar (ed.) - European Music 1520 - 1640
http://denisdutton.com/kant_third_critique.htm
>Immanuel Kant - Critique of Judgment
>Part One, “The Critique of Aesthetic Judgment,” which includes “The Analytic of the Beautiful” and “The Analytic of the Sublime.”
http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=129ECEE3E24FA28BFD5F063013E77AEF
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics
>J. G. Hamann, Aesthetica in nuce
>Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
>Friedrich Schiller, Kallias or Concerning Beauty: Letters to Gottfried Korner
and others
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=4815ACCC357E4D1C75D530EE48D00A02
Johann Gottfried Herder - Selected Writings on Aesthetics
http://public-library.uk/ebooks/55/76.pdf
Friedrich Schiller - Letters on The Aesthetic Education of Man
https://arcaneknowledgeofthedeep.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/117850210-aristotle-longinus-demetrius-aristotlepoetics-longinus-on-the-sublime-demetrius-on-style-loeb-classical-library-no-199-1995smallpdf-com.pdf
Aristotle, On Poetics
Longinus, On the Sublime
Demetrius, On Style
Link correction, that one is acting up:
bookzz.org/dl/667626/ca48eb
>Benedetto Croce - Breviary of Aesthetics (four lectures)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetto_Croce
>Andrew Bowie - Aesthetics and Subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche
http://www.fourbythreemagazine.com/andrew-bowie-interview.html
Burckhardt's books about italian art and renaissance culture already posted here
http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=30E68C2947EA5F686B6531EE89B47C94
George Santayana - The Sense of Beauty (Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory)
http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=5163FA929C8260D48EEBDC227795D8EE
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling - The Philosophy of Art
>VITRUVIUS
>THE TEN BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
>TRANSLATED BY MORRIS HICKY MORGAN
http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html
>letters of vincent van gogh
i read somewhere he wasnt very proud of this book, because it was a request by his american institute and he wrote it in a rush, not very motivated.
Winckelmann's History of the Art of Antiquity
Vol. 1:
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125009752219
Vol. 2:
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125009752151
John Ruskin's Miscellanious Writings on Aesthetics
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/theoryov.html
Baudelaire - Art Criticism
https://archive.org/details/mirrorofartcriti00baud
>Andrea Palladio - The Four Books Of Architecture
https://u.pomf.is/cmabhs.pdf
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/lit/complete.html
>The Art of Literature - Arthur Schopenhauer
>drawn from his "Parerga and Paralipomena"
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9352ABE360EEF5B8D166D8530D5BFDFF
>The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. The theories developed in this relatively short text have had a profound influence on the philosophy, literature, music and politics of the twentieth century. This edition presents a new translation by Ronald Speirs and an introduction by Raymond Geuss that sets the work in its historical and philosophical context. The volume also includes two essays on related topics that Nietzsche wrote during the same period. (The Dionysiac World View & On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense)
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=33BA9838112E16B462E86586037FB5C9
>Matila Ghyka - The geometry of art and life
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9E5F81769E9AEF62D17A79D30E2ECDB1
>Dmitri Tymoczko - A Geometry of Music
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3784B2B5A5FA1D481D2FF6212E620FF6
>Robert Lawlor
>Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice
might also go in /x/ thread, but it fits more to some other books here
>>4165
wow rude
https://archive.org/details/ciceroneorartgui00burc
https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008331627
https://archive.org/details/cu31924032329207
>The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology - Richard Payne Knight
pic unrelated
>Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons
>Igor Stravinsky
intro + 5 short lectures. the files on genlib etc are just reviews.
https://archive.org/details/SpeculationsEssaysOnHumanismAndThePhilosophyOfArt
>Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art
>by T. E. Hulme
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Hulme
https://archive.org/details/threeclassicsina00debu
>Three classics in the aesthetic of music:
consisting of
>Monsieur Croche the Dilettante hater by Claude Debussy
>Sketch of a new Esthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni
>Essays before a Sonata by Charles E. Ives
Eric Sams collected essays (online)
http://www.ericsams.org/index.php/on-music/essays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Sams
>Albert Schweitzer - J. S. Bach
https://archive.org/details/jsbachvolume1002520mbp
>vol 1
https://archive.org/details/jsbach00widogoog
>vol 2
original
https://archive.org/details/jsbach01schwgoog
http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/cicero/dnv1-1.htm
>Cicero - De Inventione
not contained in the classics.mit.edu collection
https://u.nya.is/wsmoyv.epub
>Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style
>translated by Barbara Wright (1958), with 28 additional Exercises (by Queneau) translated by Chris Clarke and 10 new exercises written in homage (2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercises_in_Style
https://u.nya.is/nqulno.epub
Salvador Dali - 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
>DEDICATION
>At the age of six I wanted to be Napoleon—and I wasn't.
>At the age of fifteen I wanted to be Dali and I have been.
>At the age of twenty-five I wanted to become the most sensational painter in the world and I achieved it.
>At thirty-five I wanted to affirm my life by success and I attained it.
>Now at forty-five I want to paint a masterpiece and to save Modern Art from chaos and laziness. I will succeed! This book is consecrated to this crusade and I dedicate it to all the young, who have faith in true painting.
his other book in /x/ thread >>921
>Andrey Tarkovsky - Time Within Time - The Diaries 1970-1986
https://monoskop.org/File:Tarkovsky_Andrey_Time_Within_Time_The_Diaries_1970-1986.pdf
>Andrey Tarkovsky - Sculpting in Time
https://monoskop.org/File:Tarkovsky_Andrey_Sculpting_in_Time_Reflections_on_the_Cinema.pdf
>Alan Greenberg, Werner Herzog - Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=8FFC1C9F310932AB5AEC82D23B770B5B
>Lendvai Ernõ - Bela Bartok An Analysis of His Music (revised reprint 1979)
another hungarian hunting for the golden section
https://my.mixtape.moe/lzehnd.pdf
>Christopher Alexander - The Timeless Way of Building
>Alexander's built work is characterized by a special quality (which he used to call "the quality without a name", but named "wholeness" in Nature of Order) that relates to human beings and induces feelings of belonging to the place and structure. This quality is found in the most loved traditional and historic buildings and urban spaces, and is precisely what Alexander has tried to capture with his sophisticated mathematical design theories. Paradoxically, achieving this connective human quality has also moved his buildings away from the abstract imageability valued in contemporary architecture, and this is one reason why his buildings are under-appreciated at present.
Basically, he's a reaction against Le Corbusier and the modernist and brutalist schools of architecture. The old copies of this book on libgen have missing pages, so here's a copy with the missing pages ripped from google books and added in.
>goethe - maxims and reflections
works for me
Works for me too.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vida's_Art_of_Poetry
>Marco Girolamo Vida's De arte poetica (On the Art of Poetry), partly inspired by Horace, and Scacchia Ludus ("The Game of Chess"), translated into many languages over the centuries.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/horace/works/book10.html
>Horace - Upon the Art of Poetry
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E462880E5C1570F168A3F84C3C940ACE
>Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Baroque Music Today: Music As Speech : Ways to a New Understanding of Music
>Love him or hate him, call him a pioneering genius or dusty and mannered, Nikolaus Harnoncourt deserves a lot of credit. Not only did he lead the period-instrument movement into its first major successes (both artistic and commercial) but his ideas about how to play Baroque- and Classical-era music (and why to play it that way) have had enormous influence even on conventional symphony orchestras and their conductors. This volume is a collection of essays and lectures Harnoncourt has given over the years laying out those very ideas. The title, Baroque Music Today, is something of a misnomer at this point: the latest essay in the book dates from 1980, and the second essay, "The Interpretation of Historical Music," is effectively the founding mission statement (from 1954) of Harnoncourt's period-instrument orchestra, the Concentus Musicus of Vienna. While the occasional observation seems dated or debatable, and certain points are repeated from chapter to chapter (the chapters were originally separate lectures), most of what Harnoncourt has to say remains both instructive and persuasive. The second half of the book contains interesting discussions of particular Baroque-era instruments, national styles (French, Italian, German, English), and composers (Bach, Mozart). Harnoncourt manages to cover many technical details without ever moving beyond the ken of an interested layperson. The real heart of the book, however, is the first half, in which the author convincingly lays out the numerous misconceptions under which Baroque- and Classical-era music was generally played in the mid-20th-century ("The prevailing misconception that notational symbols and indications of affect, tempo and dynamics have always meant what they do today is disastrous"); how these misconceptions first took hold ("After the French Revolution, music got an ideological aspect–specifically, it was meant to be egalitarian. The idea of rhetoric disappeared; verbal elements were replaced with pictorial. That's how the sostenuto, the long sweeping legato melodic line, came into common use"); and the aesthetic approach he feels is crucial to performing–and hearing–Baroque music ("I like to say that music prior to 1800 speaks, while subsequent music paints. The former must be understood, since anything which is spoken presupposes understanding, while the latter … should be felt"). Whether you agree or disagree with the premises of the historically informed performance movement (or just want to know what those premises are), you'll find them stated clearly and eloquently here. –Matthew Westphal
>Richard A. Lanham
>A Handlist of rhetorical terms
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=867D6990562DC4857608193A488BED0A
>Revising prose
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=855AC70D9241D8AD5B24F82028EAF2EC
>Lajos Egri - the art of dramatic writing
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3284F8AAE814B04A113C26D277C59A2E
https://u.nya.is/ifhfty.pdf
>(((Heinrich Schenker))) - The Decline of the Art of Composition
detailed critique of programmatic composers and defense of "absolute" classicism. found among unpublished manuscripts.
https://archive.org/details/lexiconofmusical00nico
>(((Nicolas Slonimsky))) - Lexicon of musical invective
669 excerpts from brutal reviews up until 1960s
>Leon Krier - The Architecture of Community
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=0C1373BBCEB944CB215F37954A73D7E8
>Leon Krier is one of the best-known—and most provocative—architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas have circulated mostly among a professional audience of architects, city planners, and academics. In The Architecture of Community, Krier has reconsidered and expanded writing from his 1998 book Architecture: Choice or Fate. Here he refines and updates his thinking on the making of sustainable, humane, and attractive villages, towns, and cities. The book includes drawings, diagrams, and photographs of his built works, which have not been widely seen until now. With three new chapters, The Architecture of Community provides a contemporary road map for designing or completing today’s fragmented communities. Illustrated throughout with Krier’s original drawings, The Architecture of Community explains his theories on classical and vernacular urbanism and architecture, while providing practical design guidelines for creating livable towns.
>E. Michael Jones's Living Machines: Bauhaus Archaeology as Sexual Ideology
>[Narrated by Alex Linder]
mp3s at
https://vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=368342
https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/17972
>August Halm's Von zwei Kulturen der Musik : a translation and introductory essay (pdf 2.964MB)
>August Halm, composer, music pedagogue, and music critic, published Von zwei Kulturen der Musik (Of Two Cultures of Music) in 1913. In this book he sought to describe his conception of two historical musical cultures and the narrative of their eventual synthesis. Halm’s first culture of music, melody, is exemplified by Bach’s fugues for keyboard. His second culture, harmony, is exemplified by Beethoven’s works in sonata form, such as his piano sonatas and symphonies. At the end of the book, Halm describes a third culture—a synthesis of melody and harmony that he sees in the works of Bruckner. His subsequent book, Die Symphonien Anton Bruckners, published the following year, expands on his claims about this third culture. Von zwei Kulturen der Musik established the composer/critic’s fame in the realm of music aesthetics and analysis.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E0BCD359890353F77D8D3E6344BB1134
>Alfred Cortot - In Search of Chopin
>A series of themed essays rather than a traditional biography, this profile of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist is the work of a legendary conductor and performer.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=D31FB89F21CFE3ACFE96194DD75C4BCC
>Alfred Brendel - A Pianist's A-Z: A Piano Lover's Reader
condensed outtakes from
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=84F2263818C16B99109EE27467B25D62
>Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures
users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/filmphilology/heideggerworkofart.pdf
Heidegger - The Origin of the Work of Art (essay)
an aesthetic entry point to Heideggers Philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_the_Work_of_Art
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7DAAC37C9FC329D6CE495ACC78CB0795
>Roman Ingarden - The Work of Music and the Problem of Its Identity
>Before World War II, Ingarden published his works mainly in the German language. During the war, he switched to Polish, and as a result his major works in ontology went largely unnoticed by the wider world philosophical community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Ingarden
http://www48.zippyshare.com/v/17LbEur0/file.html
>Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
https://archive.org/details/princarth00wlff
>Heinrich Wölfflin - Principles of art history
seminal work of formalism. through investigation of the transition between renaissance and baroque he came up with five dimensions of discrimination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_W%C3%B6lfflin#Principles_of_Art_History
Dialectics of the Ideal
https://archive.org/details/journalofeuggrav00dela
>The Journal of Eugene Delacroix : a selection
Andrei Rubelyev is his best work by far…truly a great film.
The Story of Crass
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=A92C071325803C7760F55F0D38264F98
>Pixel Logic: PDF Archive
Any books with artworks and annotations to them from various periods you would recommend?
taschen publisher has many coffee table books like this.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=415F8A5D8332B5FF92E283C0BB5EE293
>Salvador Dali - Los Cornudos Del Viejo Arte Moderno
>Dali on Modern Art: The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art
havent seen an english version yet, except a google preview
http://alexhays.com/loomis/
>various classic drawing manuals by Andrew Loomis
on figures
https://archive.org/details/pendrawingillust00magirich
>Pen drawing ; an illustrated treatise by Charles Donagh Maginnis
on architectural subjects
Beethoven power pack
https://archive.org/details/beethovenwithint00riez
>Walter Riezler - Beethoven; with an introduction by Wilhelm Furtwängler (1938)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80581
>Donald Francis Tovey - Beethoven (1945)
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=42C93E1FB466019048F4EC4BCCDE15A2
>Edwin Fischer - Beethoven's pianoforte sonatas: a guide for students & amateurs (1959)
Great thread. Came here looking for a clean version of Tom Wolfe's the Painted Word. (This one is low res scan with annotations.)
Great, thanks.
>Beauty by Roger Scruton
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=08DB10EE48B866A0F5C71AA8DA8C3448
>Christian Thielemann - My life with Wagner (2016)
>My Life with Wagner chronicles his ardent personal and professional engagement with the great composer, whose work has shaped his thinking and feeling from early childhood. Thielemann retraces his journey around the world with Wagner―from Berlin to Bayreuth via Venice, Hamburg, and Chicago―and combines his analysis with revealing insights drawn from his many years of experience as a Wagner conductor. Thielemann discusses each of Wagner's operas in turn, and his appraisal is illuminated by a deep affinity for the music, an intimate knowledge of the scores, and the inside perspective of a world-class practitioner.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=114B944278C378A2E1967C5A37682179
>Carl Dahlhaus - Richard Wagner's Music Dramas (1992)
>Previous studies of Wagner's operas have tended to approach the works as chunks of autobiography, philosophical speculations or historical-political comments on the age in which they were written. Professor Dahlhaus dissociated himself from all such ventures. His aim is to reveal, by careful analysis of the works from Der fliegende Hollander to Parsifal, the dominant features of 'music drama' and how Wagner achieves such profound, unified effects. Professor Dahlhaus cites music examples only when they are germane to his argument and requires from his readers no more than a limited amount of technical musical knowledge. This is not, therefore, an exclusively specialist study. Rather it will help the enthusiastic beginner to come to terms with these great works of art as well as offering many valuable insights to the experienced Wagnerian.
Anyone got the full version of this book: Likeness and Presence by Hans Belting. Here's a preview
Ornamental drawing, and architectural design. With notes, historical and practical. Upwards of 200 illustrations
by Burn, Robert Scott
Published 1857
Good insight on Grecian, & Roman architecture designs.
https://archive.org/details/wagnerbiography0000west
>Curt von Westernhagen - Wagner, A Biography (1978)
>vol 2 1864-1883
no first volume, but better than nothing
https://archive.org/details/analysisofbeauty00hoga/page/n3
>William Hogarth - The analysis of beauty : written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste (1753)
>muh S-waveline
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=F60ECBA59D48F1AAD30DDC33A9940366
>Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment: Selected Writings of Johann Georg Sulzer and Heinrich Christoph Koch
original here http://www.zeno.org/Kategorien/T/Sulzer-1771
>Sulzers aesthetic theory possesses a fundamentally conservative core, however progressive it may have feigned to be with its patina of empirical psychology. His concern with the moral value of art and its pedagogical potential for promoting personal as well as civil virtue was comparable in conviction only with Shaftesbury.
>C. G. Neefe declared that Sulzer had proved himself to be one of the greatest philosophers and aestheticians of their time. Kant, too, had warm words of praise for Sulzer's work, finding it one of the most thoughtful studies ever written on the artistic imagination. Herder was particularly impressed by Sulzer's penetrating insights and systematic analysis of psychological faculties in relation to the creation and perception of art. Yet Herder also found fault with its pedantic and moralizing tone. It was in general much too abstract and prescriptive, he was forced to admit, with too little attention paid to the actual history of art. The young Goethe had much the same complaint. Goethe chastized Sulzer for thinking he could penetrate the mysteries of artistic creation from the perspective of a detached philosopher. Dry theoretical generalizations and optimistic moralisms could never begin to convey the true spiritual meaning and power of art. Besides for Goethe, nature was not the benevolent force of virtue Sulzer assumed; it could just as well be violent and cruel, deaf to the suffering of humanity.
>Despite the negative reaction of the young Stürmer und Dränger, Sulzer's encyclopedia was highly influential as a reference work, often cited by authors and used as a learning text well into the nineteenth century. It was the largest and most encyclopedic attempt made in the German language during the eighteenth century to define and codify systematically all aspects of the arts, and to draw out common aesthetic principles in a useful, didactic manner.
>all its suggestiveness, his prescriptive process would probably have remained an abstraction for musical composition were it not for the efforts of Koch, since it was Koch who was able creatively to adapt Sulzer's aesthetic and rhetorical ideals to concrete problems of musical composition.
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=DBD300672E0B976403F4E4604A50E836
>John Gardner - On Moral Fiction (1979)
>A genuine classic of literary criticism, On Moral Fiction argues that ”true art is by its nature moral.”