Aesthetic Cultivation

17 books

Is Art Really Useless? cover
Rating 3.8
Is Art Really Useless? 三浦俊彦 / 乡和贵 / spRachel雷切尔 Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House · 2023 To ordinary readers, contemporary art seems incomprehensible and utterly impractical, yet it has increasingly become a buzzword online and in society.…
Watercolour Painting cover
Rating 2.6
Watercolour Painting Schmidt, Max, 1874-1950 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture cover
Rating 2.5
The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture Jameson, Helen Follett, 1873- Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Music Notes cover
Rating 4.3
Music Notes 辛丰年 / 严峰 Shanghai Music Publishing House · 2025 This series brings together eight widely influential music collections by Mr. Xin Fengnian, previously published and now re-edited and reissued, inclu…
Thus Have I Heard (Xin Fengnian Collected Works, Volume 2) cover
Rating 4.1
Thus Have I Heard (Xin Fengnian Collected Works, Volume 2) 辛丰年 / 严峰 Shanghai Music Publishing House · 2025 This series presents eight of Mr. Xin Fengnian's most influential published music collections, newly edited and typeset for reissue, including Random …
Classic of Mountains and Seas of Music: Anecdotes on Famous Western Compositions cover
Rating 4.1
Classic of Mountains and Seas of Music: Anecdotes on Famous Western Compositions Lin Hua / 高钰 Shanghai Music Publishing House · 2025 This is a book for art appreciation, both readable and scholarly. In an essayistic manner, the author introduces music theory, the meaning of musical …
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Rating 4.0
Please Come to the Feast of Music 辛丰年 / 严峰 Shanghai Music Publishing House · 2025 This series selects eight widely influential music essay collections previously published by Mr. Xin Fengnian, now re-edited and reissued, including R…
Inside and Outside the Book: Nineteen Lectures on Calligraphy by Shen Peng cover
Rating 4.6
Inside and Outside the Book: Nineteen Lectures on Calligraphy by Shen Peng 沈鹏 Peking University Press · 2025 “Carry forward originality, respect individuality, learn within and beyond the book, advance in both art and the Way” is the sixteen-character princip…
The Beauty of Painting cover
Rating 4.3
The Beauty of Painting Zhu Liangzhi Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 The Beauty of Painting offers Professor Zhu Liangzhi's close reading of traditional Chinese literati painting. Zhu, a professor in the Department of P…
The Beauty of Art cover
Rating 4.4
The Beauty of Art Zhu Liangzhi Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 The Beauty of Art is an analysis and appreciation of traditional Chinese art by Zhu Liangzhi, professor of philosophy at Peking University and vice pr…
Illustrated Aesthetics cover
Rating 3.2
Illustrated Aesthetics 常宏 Sino-Culture Press · 2024 Aesthetics is the science that studies beauty, aesthetic perception, the creation of beauty, and the principles of aesthetic education. Exploring the …
Talking About Poetry, Chatting About Painting: Brief Remarks on Painting cover
Rating 3.9
Talking About Poetry, Chatting About Painting: Brief Remarks on Painting 唐志契 / 张慧 Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing Ltd. · 2020 Huishi Weiyan (Modest Words on Painting) is a four-volume work by Tang Zhiqi, a late-Ming landscape painter and theorist. Volume One, written by the a…
Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses cover
Rating 4.0
Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses Sir Joshua Reynolds Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Fifteen Lectures on Aesthetics cover
Rating 3.9
Fifteen Lectures on Aesthetics 凌继尧 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is an introductory textbook for general-education courses in aesthetics, art theory, art appreciation, and cultural cultivation at colleges …
Refinement: For Women Who Wish to Be Forever Elegant and Composed cover
Rating 3.8
Refinement: For Women Who Wish to Be Forever Elegant and Composed 加藤惠美子 / Dai Fangfang Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 This is Japanese fashion and art master Emiko Kato's another stylish little book following the bestselling 《气质》(Elegance). Minimalism and beauty are t…
A Life of Great Beauty: Essays by Zhu Guangqian (Great Scholars' Essays Series) cover
Rating 4.2
A Life of Great Beauty: Essays by Zhu Guangqian (Great Scholars' Essays Series) Zhu Guangqian Peking University Press · 2025 This volume gathers 41 essays by Zhu Guangqian spanning nearly seventy years, grouped into three parts—The Temperament of Beauty, Strolling Through Ae…
Fifteen Lectures on Aesthetics (Master Scholars' General Knowledge Lecture Series) cover
Rating 4.0
Fifteen Lectures on Aesthetics (Master Scholars' General Knowledge Lecture Series) 凌继尧 Peking University Press · 2025 This book is an introductory textbook written for general elective courses on aesthetics, art theory, art appreciation, and artistic cultivation at co…