Course: Ethics of contemporary art

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Course title Ethics of contemporary art
Course code KFHS/KB392
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 3
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Řebíková Barbora, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Thematic plan of the course is following: 1. Introduction into philosophical and ethical thinking 2. What is it ethics - ethical theories overview 3. What is the art - the contemporary art 4. The art as a cultural phenomenon 5. Visual culture and the contemporary art 6. The relationship between the art and ethics 7. Who is a human and what is human dignity? 8. The issue of person 9. The contemporary art operation - the role of beholder and its shift 10. Factors influencing the change of the role of beholder (postproduction, visual culture, institutionalisation) 11. Art experiments - the contemporary participative art 12. Experiments on humans - areas, history, methods 13. Ethics of the contemporary art - human dignity, slippery slope

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course is focused on the topic of the contemporary art and its present changes which to the forefront of theoretical and practical interest places the beholder and his/her role in the contemporary art operation. The beholder is engaged within the current art world on many levels and he/she is "counted on" in curator intentions of exhibitions, in entertainment and in all thinkable art events where the role of beholder is focused on with unusual power and intensity. In the field of curatorship, this phenomenon received a label "educative switch" but completely right is a label "switch to the beholder". The course will focus on these changes of the role of beholder in the contemporary art and refers to the similarity of art experiments with other ones on humans which were or still are on the edge or behind the edge of ethical tolerance. The course will focus on the topics such as human dignity or the issue of slippery slope.
A student will gain the overview in main ethical theories and can apply on the topics of contemporary art. He/she will develop the term basis needed for understanding of ethical and esthetical problems. He/she will be capable of independent argumentation. He/she will develop the ability to understand the texts and discuss and think independently within ethics and aesthetics.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Oral test of orientation in discussed topics based on an essay which will follow some of discussed topics.
Recommended literature
  • Kulka, T., Ciporanov, D., (eds.). Co je umění, Texty angloamerické estetiky 20. století. Červený kostelec, 2010.
  • Sokol Jan. Etika a život. Pokus o praktickou filosofii. Praha, 2010.
  • Thompson Don. Jak prodat vycpaného žraloka za 12 miliónů dolarů. Zlín, 2010.
  • Vácha Marek. Základy moderní lékařské etiky. Praha, 2012.


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