The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and…

In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This…

There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can…

Edited with an introduction and notes by James T. Boulton.

'One of the greatest essays ever written on art.'– The Guardian

Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into…

Christine Battersby is a leading thinker in the field of philosophy, gender studies and visual and literary aesthetics. In this important new work, she undertakes…

What does it mean to be visually literate? Does it mean different things in the arts and the sciences? In the West, in Asia, or…