Okay. This area of Aesthetics is HUGE.

Below are links to several noteworthy - and historic in their own right - histories of Western Aesthetics:

(Click here for Eastern Aesthetic HIstory)

---

On Western Aesthetic History:

---

Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present, A Short History by Monroe C. Beardsley (1966)

History of Aesthetics, in three volumes (vols. 1-2, 1970; vol. 3, 1974; Polish: Historia estetyki, vols. 1-2, 1962; vol. 3, 1967) by Władysław Tatarkiewicz

A History of Aesthetic by Bernard Bosanquet (1892)

History of Aesthetics (pre-20th-century) This description of the history of aesthetics before the twentieth century is based on an article from the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. (from Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia)

---

On Eastern Aesthetic History:

---

A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics by Michael F. Marra (2001)

Eastern Aesthetics by Thomas Munro & Roger Scruton (Encyclopedia Britannica - CD-Rom Ultimate Reference Suite, 2003)

What to Learn from Eastern Aesthetics by Grazia Marchianò (1997)

History of aesthetics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia