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Essays on work, traffic, war, and the moral purpose of art in modern industrial society.

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.