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This is a list of aestheticians, notable philosophers of art, who theorize about the nature of art and beauty.

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Philosophers	Abhinavagupta Adorno Alberti Akhundov Ibn Arabi Aristotle Aquinas Balázs Balthasar Bataille Baudelaire Baudrillard Baumgarten Bell Benjamin Burke Coleridge Collingwood Coomaraswamy Danto Deleuze Dewey Flaubert Foucault Fry Goethe Goodman Gramsci Greenberg Hanslick Hegel Heidegger Hume Hutcheson Kant Kierkegaard Klee Langer Lipps Liu Lukács Lyotard de Man Marcuse Maritain Merleau-Ponty Nietzsche Ortega y Gasset Orwell Pater Petrarch Plato Pythagoras Quintilian Rancière Rand Richards Ruskin Said Santayana Schiller Schopenhauer Scruton Sontag Tagore Tanizaki Tolkien Vasari Wilde Winckelmann Woolf Zola more...
Concepts	Apollonian and Dionysian Appropriation Art for art's sake Art manifesto Artistic merit Authenticity Avant-garde Beauty Feminine Masculine Cool Camp Comedy Creativity Cuteness Depiction Disgust Ecstasy Elegance Emotions Entertainment Eroticism Exoticism Fashion Gaze Harmony Hegemony Imperialism Humour Iconography Aniconism Integrity Interpretation Judgment Kama Kitsch Life imitating art Magnificence Mimesis Morality Perception Picturesque Quality Rasa Recreation Leisure Reverence Satire Style Sublime Taste Tragedy Work of art
Works	Hippias Major (c. 390 BCE) Poetics (c. 335 BCE) Ars Poetica (c. 19 BCE) The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (c. 100) On the Sublime (c. 500) Asrar al-Balagha (11th century) Mumyōzōshi (13th century) On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Lectures on Aesthetics (1835) "The Critic as Artist" (1891) "A Room of One's Own" (1929) In Praise of Shadows (1933) Art as Experience (1934) "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935) "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939) Prison Notebooks (Gramsci) 1947 Critical Essays (1946) Against Interpretation (1966) "Notes on 'Camp'" (1964) The Aesthetic Dimension (1977) Orientalism (1978) Why Beauty Matters (2009)
Related	Applied aesthetics Arts criticism Art criticism The arts and politics Aestheticization of politics Artistic freedom Axiology Economics of the arts and literature Artistic patronage Cultural economics Evolutionary aesthetics Mathematical beauty Neuroesthetics Patterns in nature Philosophy of design Philosophy of film Philosophy of language Semantics Philosophy of music Psychology of art Religious art Theory of art
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Born before 17th century

Born in the 17th or 18th century

Born in the 19th century

Born in the 20th century