Estetikkens historie
Grunnb?ker
Beardsley, Monroe c: Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present, 1975/66. London. The University of Alabama press. kap 1-10, ca 280 sider.
Wallenstein, Sven-Olov: Bildstrider. F?relesningar om estetisk teori, 2001. Alfafa bokf?rlag. kap. 1-7, ca 140 sider.
St?ttelitteratur
Gaut/Lopes (red): The Routledge Companion to Aestethics, 2nd edition 2005. London Routledge.
I kompendiet "Estetikkens historie"
- Kristeller, P.O., "The Modern Systems of the Arts. A Study in the History of Aesthetics", s. 71-131
- Platon, Staten, X. Bok, s. 133-147
- Aristoteles, Om diktekunsten, s. 149-163
- Vitruvius, The Ten Books of Architecture, s. 172-74 (Bok I, kap. II) og s.179-80 (Bok III, kap.1)
- Leonardo da Vinci, "The 'Paragone'", Book on Painting, s. 205-248
- Vasari, Giorgio, "Preface", Lives of the most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, s. 275-285.
- Lessing, Gotthold E., "The Purity of the Medium", Laocoon, s. 289-292
I antologier
Preziosi, D (red): The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, 1998. Oxford University Press.
- Kap 1: ”Art as history” s. 21-61 (40s, inneholder - Preziosi ”Introduction” / J.J. Winckelmann ”Reflections on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture” / Whitney Davis ”Winckelmann Divided: Mourning the Death of Art history” / M.Baxandall ”Patterns of Intention”).
- kap 2: ”Style” s. 109-163 (54s, - Preziosi ”Introduction” / H.W?lfflin ”Principles of Art History” / D.Summers ”Form, 19th Century Metaphysics, and the Problem of Art Historical Description” / M.Schapiro ”Style” / E.Gombrich ”Style”)
- fra kap. 8: M.Schapiro ”The Still Life as a Personal Object”, s. 427-31.
Kearney, R./D. Rasmussen (red): Continental Aesthetics. Romanticism to Postmodernism, 2001. Oxford: Blackwell publishers.
- Kant, Immanuel, The Critique of Judgment, s. 5-42(Norsk utg. anbefales: Kritikk av d?mmekraften, overs. Espen Hammer, Oslo: Pax, § 1-23, 28, 39-50)
- Hegel, G.W.F., Lectures on Aesthetics, s. 99-126
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy, s. 143-159 (Norsk utg.: Tragediens f?dsel, Oslo: Pax, 1993, s. 47-83)
- Adorno, Theodor, Aesthetic Theory, s. 242-253 (Norsk utg.: Estetisk teori, overs. Arild Linneberg, Oslo: Gyldendal, s. 11-34)
Annen litteratur
- Alberti, Leone Battista: “Book I”, On Painting (Penguin Classics, 1991, s. 37-59)
- Greenberg, Clement: ”Modernist Painting”, Art in Theory 1900-2000 (Blackwell, 2003). Finnes ogs? i norsk overs. (”Modernistisk maleri”, Den modernistiske kunsten, Oslo: Pax, 2004)
- Heidegger, Martin: Kunstverkets opprinnelse (Oslo: Pax, 2000, s.7-52) + ”Etterord av ?verenget /Mathisen (s.135-155)
- Jarvis, Simon, kap. 4 ”Art, Truth and Ideology”, i Adorno. A Criticial Introduction (London: Polity Press, 1998), s. 90-123.
- Kj?rup, S?ren: ”Hvad er kunst”, i Kunstens filosofi. En indf?ring i ?stetik (Roskilde Universitetsforlag, 2000, s. 1-43)