Aesthetics Teaching Resources

Aesthetics Textbooks: From the Author’s Perspective

Living in an Artworld
      Noël Carroll
Mirrors to One Another: Emotion and Value in Jane Austen and David Hume
      Eva Dadlez
Aesthetics and Nature
      Glenn Parsons
Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously
      Dan Shaw
The Art of Theater
      James Hamilton
Thinking on Screen
      Thomas Wartenberg
The Philosophy of Art
      Stephen Davies
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art
      Robert Stecker

General Resources

A Mathematician's Aesthetics
     collection of quotations about the aesthetics of mathematics
Aesthetic Computing
Aesthetics of Symmetry
     A formula with examples of what makes certain symmetrical designs more pleasing than others
ArtiFAQ 2100
     predict how art will influence our lives in the next hundred years... students use available data to make reasonable forecasts for the future
ArtLex
     dictionary of visual art
Beauty Matters
     an exploration into the human creation of objects of beauty and the nature of beauty itself. Original articles on art, musical aesthetics, fashion, the culture of beauty
Bridge Aesthetics
     cd-rom to assist engineers with the aesthetic design of bridges
Cognitive Science and the Arts
     teaching resources in this groundbreaking field
Erratic Impact Philosophy Research Base - Aesthetics
     Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base features thousands of annotated links, text resources and community services for students and teachers in the field of philosophy, including aesthetics.
Freedom of Expression at the National Endowment for the Arts
     an interdisciplinary curriculum project designed by Julie Van Camp
Hume's Essays on Aesthetics
Introducting Philosophy Through Film
Museum of the Origins of Man
     teaching material including visual resources for teaching paleolithic art
PedagoNet
     learning resources search engine
Reason to Rock
     the aesthetics of rock music

Courses

A Psychoanalytic Investigation of Aesthetics by Alexander Stein, New School University
Aesthetics by Elmer H. Duncan, Baylor University
Analytic Philosophy of Architecture by Saul Fisher, Mellon Foundation
Art and Morality by A Graduate Seminar Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston
Art, Language, and Cultural Studies by Timothy Quigley, New School for Social Research
Feminist Aesthetics by Beth Dobie, Alfred University
From Modernism to Postmodernism by Timothy Quigley, New School for Social Research
Introduction to Philosophy of Art and Literature by James R. Hamilton, Kansas State University
Philosophy and Film by Casey Haskins, Purchase College SUNY
Philosophy and the Arts by Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston
Philosophy of Art by Julie van Camp, Cal State Lang Branch
Pictorial and Multimedia Aesthetics by Charles Forceville, University of Amsterdam
The Beautiful and the Sublime by Myles Brand and Peg Brand, Indiana University