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The /lit/ art appreciation gro(...) 12/13/25(Sat)00:45:06 No.24945775
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The /lit/ art appreciation group Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)00:45:06 No.24945775
I'm interested in a reading group focused on art books. Most you can get through your library if you can't afford them, or as PDF's from Anna'a Archive.

To start with I'd like to go with Umberto Eco's On Beauty, and then On Ugliness, but I open to alternative suggestions for our starting book.

The reading for the week will be posted Sunday if there are enough takers

If you want, although it's not necessary for participation, there will be linked to threads and so forth on the Criterion Club server under the visual-arts channel

https://discord.gg/XhFGx57VKm
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)03:15:21 No.24945933
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)03:15:21 No.24945933
>>24945775
Gombrich Story of Art should be the basics required for beginning such discussions.
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)06:56:37 No.24946132
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)06:56:37 No.24946132
>>24945775
stop shilling your pedocord
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)07:34:34 No.24946163
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)07:34:34 No.24946163
>>24945933
Checked

So you would participate if we started with that?
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)08:15:05 No.24946209
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)08:15:05 No.24946209
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From On Beauty
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)10:37:06 No.24946448
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)10:37:06 No.24946448
>>24945775
There are tons of general "art history" books, for example:

Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Janson's History of Art
Art History by Marilyn Stokstad
Art Across Time by Laurie Adams
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)10:43:07 No.24946472
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)10:43:07 No.24946472
>>24946448
Do you think any of them would be better to start with than Eco's books?
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)10:45:46 No.24946484
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)10:45:46 No.24946484
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>Eco argues that beauty is not absolute or immutable
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)10:48:01 No.24946494
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)10:48:01 No.24946494
>>24946472
They are general university level textbooks about art history. Eco's book are something like monographies as I understood. Just download them and thumb through.

Anyway, there are similar books about history of architecture/music/etc.
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)10:52:40 No.24946510
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)10:52:40 No.24946510
>>24946484
He isn't arguing for any position since he covers that outlook at well. He has brief excerpts from lot of primary sources to show the different aesthetic ideals, including the classical

>>24946494
His books are much richer in illustrations than most and make for ideal coffee table books but their primary interest for /lit/ is the excerpts he gives from historical sources
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)10:55:05 No.24946514
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)10:55:05 No.24946514
>>24946510
>His books are much richer in illustrations
I doubt. Those university level textbooks are pretty colourful nowadays.
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)11:09:55 No.24946545
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)11:09:55 No.24946545
>>24946514
Do have any in particular you would participate for?
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)11:27:37 No.24946579
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)11:27:37 No.24946579
>>24946545
Nah. I read Gardner's Art Through the Ages a decade ago and now I'm reading Janson's History of Art (the second edition in Norwegian for language practice) at my own pace.
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)11:35:13 No.24946588
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From On Beauty
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)14:09:11 No.24946864
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)14:09:11 No.24946864
I would join probably, although I have never read any Eco, because I already think him to be a turbo midwit.

I also want to throw in Roger Scruton as a suggestion
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)15:02:56 No.24946976
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)15:02:56 No.24946976
>>24946864
Both Scruton and Eco are midwits and both have an intricate understanding of art and aesthetics
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Anonymous
12/13/25(Sat)17:37:37 No.24947299
Anonymous 12/13/25(Sat)17:37:37 No.24947299
The entire docuseries is on youtube
https://youtu.be/J3ne7Udaetg?si=3Pup49Z5T9sCSU45
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