Contemporary Art Issues - 2nd semester
Code
722031056
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Maria João Mayer Branco
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
The seminar proposes the problematisation of the question whether one can learn to become an artist, on the basis of texts by Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and Walter Benjamim. Besides the regular sessions, three additional sessions will take place under the collaboration protocol between the Nova FCSH and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. These sessions will include the participation of three guests and will take place in the Centro de Arte Moderna (date and time to be announced).
Bibliography
ARISTÓTELES, Poética, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 1994 (tradução, prefácio, introdução, comentário e apêndices de Eudoro de Sousa)
KANT, Immanuel, Crítica da Faculdade de Juízo, Introdução de António Marques, tradução e notas de António Marques e Valério Rohden, Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 1998
NIETZSCHE, Humano, demasiado humano. Um livro para espíritos livres, Tradução de Paulo Osório de Castro, Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1996
PLATÃO, Íon, Introdução, tradução e notas de Victor Jabouille, Editorial Inquérito, Mem Martins, 2000
BENJAMIN, Walter, Ensaios sobre a literatura, Edição e tradução de João Barrento, Assírio e Alvim, Lisboa, 2016
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%).