Aesthetics, Modern
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Art of the modern age
The dancing goddess
Radio corpse
Phantom formations
Kant after Duchamp
Arguing about art
The subtext of form in the English Renaissance
Gender and genius
Natural mysticism
Forme et l'intelligible
Herder's aesthetics and the European Enlightenment
Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness
Mapping Benjamin
The ideology of the aesthetic
From the temple to the castle
Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism
Art in bourgeois society, 1790-1850 /edited by Andrew Hemingway & William Vaughan
Benedetto Croce, essays on literature and literary criticism
Dionysus reborn
The work of art
Fascism, aesthetics, and culture
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
The Feminine Sublime
Art Objects
Essays in aesthetics
The relevance of the beautiful and other essays
Making sense in life and literature
Art & otherness
Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller
The development of English drama in the late seventeenth century
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