Umberto Eco - On Beauty.

More of a book, than an essay.

Ok, i should've been more specific: i'm looking for essays about modern and postmodern art.

Fundamentals of Musical Composition by Arnold Schoenberg

>>8288939
> modern and postmodern art
Don't bother. It's all shit, sometimes literally.

>>8288939
its shit

>>8289402
pleb

another _bump_ because i can't belive noone can recommend me a book on a literary board

http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

What I can tell you is that I read the book in your OP a few months back when I was taking a course on Aesthetics - it was pretty fun, not really agreeable if you don't think like Schopenhauer.

Read Zizek's books on art, Pasolini's Heretical Empiricism, Deleuze's On Cinema. That's what I like, hope you find something you appreciate. Oh, and there's also an essay called On the Modern System of the Arts or something like that which is pretty interesting if you want to challenge your concept of Art as an immutable category

>>8289958
thanks anon

Not mod/post mod but Goethe did a great book on Color theory way back when