reading, discussion, team work, individual work

none

- understanding of the academic subject (subdomain) of aesthetics, its goals, methods and main topics

- practical application of primary aesthetic goal of critical understanding and assessment of art

- getting to know the primary 20th century aesthetic literature

- practical application of aesthetic texts/ideas to appreciation and understanding of art 

regular attendance (20%)

critical discussion of selected work/written work 1 (30%)

written work 2: artistic self-presentation (50%)

written work

1. Defining Art & BeautyW. Tatarkiewicz, “Beauty”, History of Six ideas, Oxford 1980

2. The Concept of ArtJ. Levinson, "Defining Art Historically" (1979), Aesthetics and The Philosophy of Art. The Analytic Tradition, ed. by P. Lamarque, S. H. Olsen

3. The Concept of ArtJ. Levinson, "Defining Art Historically" (1979), Aesthetics and The Philosophy of Art. The Analytic Tradition, ed. by P. Lamarque, S. H. Olsen cont.

4. Art in Context Morris Weitz, "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1956)

5. Creativity as Art– Image and Message: “Modern Hieroglyphs”, “Laws of the Letter”, in: Design Writing Research, E. Lupton, L. Abbott Miller, Princeton Architectural Pr, 1995

6. The Essence of art –  a different perspective Semir Zeki, “Art and the Brain”, Daedalus, Vol. 127, No. 2, The Brain (Spring, 1998), pp. 71-103

7. Art as Communication?Robin G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art, London 1938, pp. 21-41, 144-153

8. The Standard of Taste David Hume, “Of the Standard of Taste”, Essays on the Political, the Moral and the Literary

9. The Creative Reality of ArtArthur C. Danto, "The Transfiguration of the Commonplace", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1974)

10. Art in Social Reality Arthur C. Danto, "The Artworld”, criticism and understanding of the institutional theory of art

11. Criticism in Art – Creativity as Influence Harold Bloom, Antithetical Criticism: An Introduction, Diacritics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1970), pp. 39-046

12. Back to the Experience of Art John Dewey, Art As Experience, Penguin Books, 1934 (chapter 1, 14)

13. The experience and evaluation in contemporary world Richard Shusterman, The End of Aesthetic Experience, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

14. The Materiality of Art J.F. Lyotard, For a Pseudo-Theory, Yale French Studies, No. 52 (1975), pp. 115-127

Jacques Derrida, “Difference”, in: A Derrida Reader. Between the Blinds, New York 1991, pp. 59-80

M. McLuhan, Medium is the Message, Massachusset 1964 (illustrations)