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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful By Edmund Burke

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

By Edmund Burke

  • Release Date: 2013-05-15
  • Genre: Art & Architecture
  • $4.99

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A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a classical work on the philosophy of aesthetics. Burke's writings had a tremendous impact on landscape art and the origins of Impressionism. In this book, Burke was the first philosopher to argue that the sublime and the beautiful are mutually exclusive.