Course: Philosophy of Art I

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Course title Philosophy of Art I
Course code KDT/880
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Frequency of the course Each academic year
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction unspecified
Work placements unspecified
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Nitsche Martin, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Kolář Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction. Philosophy of art x Aesthetics x Theory of art. 2. Who is an artist? Kant's concept of genius. 3. Who is an artist? Current views I. 4. Who is an artist? Current views II. 5. Sphere of art, environment of art I. Sensuality. 6. Sphere of art, environment of art II. Mediality. 7. Sphere of art, environment of art III. Politics. 8. Sphere of art, environment of art IV. History. 9. Turn to image. 10. Art and installation of art. Curatorship. 11. Artistic intervention. 12. Ethics and performance.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course has two aims: 1. To acquaint students with the spectrum of contemporary philosophical views of art and an artwork. 2. Philosophically reflect on various contexts, in which art operates today - and which are entered by both the artist and the curator. In this course, we understand philosophy in a transdisciplinary way, i.e. with overlaps into political science, sociology, media studies, anthropology, esthetics, psychology, history, etc. The contexts to be (philosophically) discussed include, but are not limited to: current theories of sensory perception, overlaps of individual types of sensory perception (e.g. acoustic visuality or haptic visuality), esthetics and policy of representation, a turn to the image, a subject and questioning it, gender, environment, town and country, genealogy of values and evaluation, digital and social media, and postmodern religiosity. Lectures will be conducted in non-academic language with emphasis on clarity. The students are not required to have any baseline knowledge of philosophy.
The gained capabilities constitute an encompassment and an aquirement of knowledge and experience in the given field of study, they result from a concrete annotation of the subject and are aimed at a profile´s fulfilment of the graduate of the given field of study.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Active participation in the discussion
Recommended literature
  • Berger, John. Způsoby vidění. Praha: Labyrint, 2016.
  • Carbone, Mauro. The Flesh of Images: Merleau-Ponty between Paintitng and Cinema. SUNY Press, 2015.
  • Didi-Huberman, Georges. Ninfa moderna: esej o spadlé draperii. Praha: Agite/Fra, 2009.
  • Didi-Huberman, Georges. Před časem. 2008.
  • Fišerová, Michaela. Obraz a moc: rozhovory s francouzskými mysliteli. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2015.
  • Hadravová, Tereza. Co je nového v estetice. Praha: Nová beseda, 2016.
  • Heidegger, Martin a Ivan, Chvatík. Původ uměleckého díla. Oikumene, 2016.
  • Kant, Immanuel; Vladimír, Špalek; Hansel, Walter; Koblížek, Tomáš. Kritika soudnosti. Knihovna novověké tradice a současnosti, 2015.
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Oko a duch a jiné eseje. Obelisk, Praha, 1971.
  • Merleau-Ponty M. Fenomenologie vnímání. Praha, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7298-485.5.
  • Mitchell, W. J. T. Teorie obrazu / Eseje o verbální a vizuální reprezentaci. Karolinum, Praha, 2016.
  • Panagia, Davide. Ten Theses for and Aesthetics of Politics. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
  • PETŘÍČEK, M. Myšlení obrazem: průvodce současným filosofickým myšlením pro středně nepokročilé. Praha: Herrmann, 2009. ISBN 978-80-87054-18-5.
  • Vrabec, Martin. Filozofické reflexe umění. Praha: Togga, 2010.


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