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Wilde’s essays defend artifice, criticism, and beauty with dazzling paradox and theatrical intelligence.

The Book of Tea is a public-domain classic of tea culture, Japanese aesthetics, Taoism and Zen.

A foundational English defense of poetry, imagination, learning, and literary art.

Hogarth’s influential art treatise on line, movement, variety, grace, and visual composition.

Ruskin’s major defense of Turner and a sweeping study of landscape, truth, nature, imagination, and art.

Essays on Renaissance art, beauty, style, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and aesthetic experience.

A Victorian art classic on sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience in architecture.

A practical and thoughtful guide to drawing, observation, line, tone, and visual discipline.

A major work of art and architectural criticism on Venice, Gothic design, craft, and culture.

Blake’s illuminated poems contrast childhood vision with social cruelty, repression, and prophetic imagination.