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Lecturer(s)
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Řebíková Barbora, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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1) Introduction to Philosophy and Aesthetics 2) Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Aesthetics 3) Weitz: The Role of Theory in Aesthetics 4) Dickie: Institutional Analysis 5) Danto: Artworld 6) Art and Knowledge 7) Importance of Aesthetic Experience 8) Qualities in Aesthetics 9) Beauty and Other Aesthetic Categories 10) Aesthetic Attitude 11) Aesthetic Distance 12) Anglo-Saxon Postproduction 13) Test
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to provide students an overview of the theories of contemporary aesthetics in English-speaking countries; ease orientation in the contemporary art scene and enable to acquire the basic concepts of the art world, both by theory and by own experiences with art; present the main topics of contemporary debate on art and answer questions about what art is, when is art, etc; teach students to work with texts of contemporary Anglo-Saxon art theorists and independence in their search and classification in the context of broader debates which theorists discuss.
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. Gaining knowledge of several specialty areas of contemporary aesthetics. Ability to formulate "for" and "against." Acquiring the skills to work independently with prepared texts and presentations. Improve the ability of self-study and self-replenishing and information retrieval.
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Test (questions from ppt presentations and texts)
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Recommended literature
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Bouriaud, Nicolas. Postproduction. Tranzit Praha, 2004.
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GOODMAN, N. Fact, Fiction end Forecast. Harvard, 1963.
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Mirzoeff, N. An Introduction to Visual Culture. Routledge, 2002.
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