Aesthetic Theory: Aspects of Modernism

READING LIST (ALL TEXTS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST):

Besant, Annie and Charles Leadbeater. Thought Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation. Ed. Lucy Campana. Sacred Bones Books, 2020.

DEWEY, JOHN. Selections from ART AS EXPERIENCE. NEW YORK, NY: PERIGREE/BERKLEY PUBLISHING, 2005.

Kandinsky, Wassily. Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Trans. M. T. H. Sadler. Dover Publications, 1977.

Tanizaki, Jun’ichiro. In Praise of Shadows. Trans. Thomas Harper and Edward Seidensticker. Leete’s Island Books, 1977.

Recommended Secondary Sources:

Cavell, Stanley. “Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy”. In Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays (Updated Edition). Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Danto, Arthur. Selected Essays from Unnatural Wonders: ESSAYS FROM THE GAP BETWEEN ART AND LIFE. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007.