Documenti di Didattica
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Week 1.
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art (Artistic Periods), Art History, Art Criticism: The Many Modes of
Approach
Approaches
Aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Problematics of Aesthetics and Art:
Historical Development: Plato, Aristotle… Formalisation of discipline: Wolff, Kant,
Hegel).
Plato: at what point does art become pernicious? (Plato: eikastic/phantastic
imagination)
What is art? Beauty? Taste? (Kant)
Is the perfect Artwork a perfect Representation of an Original? (Plato, Aristotle)
Subjectivity/Objectivity: The Classical Problem of Beauty, and Representation?
Is the image/picture ‘out there’ or in the mind: the phenomenology of picture-
consciousness (Husserl)
History of the Concept of Art, and related concepts: representation, image. Is Religious
Representation pre-Art?
The Forms of Art: is Painting as an art ‘more art’ than Poetry Is poetry language?
(Aristotle, Hegel).
Is Art historical in essence? (Hegel)
From whence the Artistic Impulse? (Nietzsche)
Art as Religious Representation; Art as a thing of the Past? (Hegel, From Romantic
Christian to Renaissance art)
Art Now: can we write poetry after Auschwitz? (Adorno)
Art and Postmodern Representation: The Triumph of Art and Plato’s Nightmare or Art’s
defilement?
What is the being of a work of art? (Heidegger)
Art investigating Art’s essence: Postmodern Art as Philosophical Reflexion (Danto)
Art History: Familiarising ourselves with bodies of work from diverse traditions, cultures. Art as
a function of art-historical and historical periods.
Gombrich, The Story of Art
Classical Aesthetics
2. Aristotle’s Poetics.
The Concept of Mimesis.
Is Dramatic Poetry Art?
5. Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music, Walter Kaufmann (trans.), New
York: Vintage, 1967 (1872).
- Cazeaux: Ch 3: On Truth and Lie on an Extra-Moral Sense
- Extracts from The Birth of Tragedy
8. Adorno
- Cazeaux: Ch 10 Aesthetics and Hermeneutics
Modernism
9. Benjamin
- Caseaux: Ch 20 The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age
17. Derrida
Caseaux Ch26: The Pareregon
Danto..???
Adorno…?
Postmodernism.