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Best books to learn Aesthetics and the philosophy of art, in order

Aesthetics asks deceptively simple questions, what is beauty, what is art, that have deep philosophical roots, so a good path moves from question to tradition to argument. Start with an accessible survey of the central problems, work through the classic theories from Plato and Kant to Hume, and reach modern and contemporary debates last, once you can see how each new answer is arguing with the ones before it.

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