Aesthetics and Theories of Art - 2nd semester
Code
711061007
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História da Arte
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Joana da Cunha Leal
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
- Knowledge of the main characteristics of aesthetics;
- Characterization of the relation between art, philosophy and history;
- Capacity to identify the different disciplinary fields of aesthetics, art theory, art philosophy and art history;
- Knowledge of the main authors and key texts that mark the field of aesthetics:
- Capacity to identify and discuss the main theories and definitions of art;
- Development of the ability to problematize art works;
- Development of analytical competence regarding art works;
- Introduction to writing reflective and theoretical essays on art;
Prerequisites
Non Applicable
Subject matter
1. Answer the question what is art?
2. View, create and experience art: models of perception of the world and
objects - art as pleasure, as knowledge, as system
3. The artistic phenomenon and its relation to the experience of life
4. Poetry or technique? Artists or craftsmen? What for do we need the work of artists?
5. Things in the world versus art things: limits, determinations and consequences
6. Form and the idea: the play of imagination in the creation of meaning
7. From a taste of science to a critique of the beautiful
8. Enlargement of thought as aesthetic experience: the power of judgment
9. Art, moral and politics: good art or fine art?
10. Art as exercise and way of seeing: the formation and building images
11. Facts and values in art
12. The possibility of a philosophy of art
Bibliography
BERNSTEIN, J. M., The Fate of Art Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno, Polity Press, Cambridge/Oxford, 1992
DUVE, Thierry, Kant after Duchamp, October Book, The MIT Press, Cambridge/London, 1997
KANT, I., Crítica da Razão Pura [Kritik der reinen Vernunft 1787 (2a ed.), trad. port. Manuela Pinto dos Santos e Alexandre Fradique Morujão] 3a ed., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa,1994
KLEIN, Robert, A Forma e o Inteligível [La forme et lintelligible: écrits sur la renaissance et lart moderne, ed. André Chastel, 1970, trad. Cely Arena], EDUSP, São Paulo, 1998
MURDOCH, Iris, Acasto dois diálogos platónicos, [Acastos, tow platonic dialogues, 1986, trad. Maria Leonor Telles], Livros Cotovia, Lisboa, 1990
WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig, Aulas e Conversas sobre Estética, Psicologia e Fé Religiosa, [Wittgensteins Lectures and Conversations, 1966, trad. Miguel Tamen], Livros Cotovia, Lisboa, 1991
Teaching method
Theoretical and debate classes
Evaluation method
The evaluation will take into account 3 criteria:
1 - A research work with a maximum of 1,500 words about a conference / work of art of the students choice. This work must respect the methodology and the rules of scientific work force in FCSH.
2 - Final Assessment Test.
3 - The final grade is a weighted average of the following assessment: work, test and qualitative participation in classes.