Contemporary Art Issues
Code
722031056
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To identify philosophical questions presented and aroused by contemporary artistic creation and their articulation with the aesthetical and philosophical tradition.
b) To develop the capacity to relate the art world with extra-artisitc theoretical problems of contemporaneity.
c) To increase the capacity to discuss critically the aesthetical proposals of the last hundred years.
d) To develop written and oral formulation of aesthetic experience of contemporary art works and and its relation with theoretical problems.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
Bibliography
ARENDT, Hannah, Lectures on Kants Political Philosophy, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1992
BRANCO, Maria João Mayer/ HAY, Katia (eds.), Nietzsche Kant, Aesthetics and Anthropology, London and New York, Bloomsbury, 2016
BRANCO, Maria João Mayer, De-sideratio, in: Júlio Pomar e Rui Chafes: Desenhar, Assírio e Alvim, Lisboa, 2016
BERNSTEIN, J.M., The Fate of Art. Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992
MONDZAIN, Marie-José Homo Spectator, Bayard Éditions, Paris, 2007; Homo Spectator, trad. Luís Lima, Lisboa, Orfeu Negro, 2015
(outras indicações bibliográficas serão fornecidas ao longo do semestre)
Teaching method
The two first sessions of the course will be devoted to a general introduction of the main topics of the syllabus and will have an expositive form. The next sessions will obey to a seminarial structure, with the reading and analysis of philosophical texts and their confrontation with a selection of passages written by artists. The students will be invited to identify and discuss the formulation of problems of contemporary artistic creation referring them to philosophical questions of our time that , in the subsequent sessions, they will find materialised in a selection of works of the Centro de Arte Moderna da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Evaluation method
The student´s evaluation will be made on the basis of a written paper of about 12 pages (70%) and of the participation on the discussion in class (30%).