Theodor Adorno is the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the extraordinarily influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including Marcuse, Benjamin, Horkheimer and Habermas.
This book is his classic discussion of the sublime, the ugly and the beautiful 'Art is the sedimentation of human misery'
This is the definitive translation by Robert Hullot-Kentor.