Aesthetics and Theories of Art
Objectives
To recognize there are both differences and points of contact between art history, history, aesthetics, art criticism. To recognize art history´s writing limitations. To identify main aesthetic and art theories in the writing of art history. To interpret fundamental texts of art theory and to relate artistic practices and art theories. To acquire the flexibility to critically analyze theories and practices in art history and to apply acquired knowledge in the study of art subjects of different times and places, and in other learning contexts. To relate theory from other disciplines or contexts with art theory and art history.
General characterization
Code
01100550
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Mariana de Lemos Pinto dos Santos
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Non Applicable
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 l’intelligible: écrits sur la renaissance et l’art 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, [Wittgenstein’s Lectures and Conversations, 1966, trad. Miguel Tamen], Livros Cotovia, Lisboa, 1991
Teaching method
Theoretical and debate classes
Evaluation method
Available soon
Subject matter
Introduction: art history, history, aesthetics, art theory, art criticism
1. Plato, platonism, neo-platonism.
2. The origin of aesthetics and the Enlightment. Concepts of Beauty, Sublime, Genius. Kant and the history of art.
3. Hegel and the consolidation of art history as a discipline.
4. Nietzsche, the apolinean and the dionisyac.
5. Aesthetics and Politics. Aesthetics and marxism. Form and content: debates on realism.
6. Theories of modernism and modernisms.
7. Structuralism and post-structuralism: impact on art theory.
8. Post-colonial theory: critic of eurocentric knowledge. Edward Said´s Orientalism. Subaltern stories.
9. The anti-aesthetic.
10. Gender studies and art theory.
11. The dominance of the image: theory of modern perception.
12. The aesthetic regime of the arts of Jacques Rancière