Any essential books on the topic of Aeshetics? A friend and I were talking about creativity and he said that I would enjoy this sort of thing. I mostly read fiction.
The Origin of the Work of Art by Heidegger
On the Sublime and the Beautiful by Burke
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Bejamin
Poetics by Aristotle
Aesthetic Theory by Adorno
Hegel and Kant's aesthetics are certainly more challenging but also important, as many philosophers draw ideas or try to criticise them
>>9496985
>Reading materialists on art
old school:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Poetica_%28Horace%29
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vida%27s_Art_of_Poetry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_Criticism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peri_Bathous,_Or_the_Art_of_Sinking_in_Poetry
>>9496253
If you have no experience with aesthetics at all then aesthetics: a beginners guide by Charles Taliaferro is good.
All the beginners guides in that series are actually great (from the ones I've read).