Lectures and seminars will serve the purpose to analyze chosen topics (focused on visual art, with a look at theatre, poetry, music and dance). Power Point projections of classical and contemporary artworks are shown and discussed. A few guest lectures and films may be included in the program.
EXCERPTS FROM TEXTS TO BE EXAMINED IN DEPTH (in any good editions or online, or in books on reserve in the library)
G. Alberti, On Painting
W.Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age if its Mechanical Reproduction
J. Beuys, What is Art? Conversation with JB (Harlan, ed.)
G. Careri, Flights of Love
A.Danto, The Abuse of Beauty
G. Deleuze, Cinema2: The Time-Image
M. Duchamp, The Creative Act
I. Kant, Critique of Judgement
N. Luhmann, Art as a Social System
B. Newman, The Sublime is Now
Pico della Mirandola, Dignity of Man
A. Portmann, Essay on Zoology
Plato, Republic X, Phaedrus, Symposium
Ramachandran, The Science of Art
Paul Virilio, The Accident of Art
REFERENCE TEXTS:
L. Shiner, The Invention of Art
L. Henderson, Duchamp in Context
EXCERPTS FROM FILMS:
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dalì, Un chien andalou
Salvador Dalì and Walt Disney, Destino
Germain Dulac and Antonin Artaud, La coquille et le clergyman
Glitch music (Autechre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acuwRHIWL_o)
Theo Jansen, Animaris
William Kentridge, Automatic Writing
Schneider/Beckett/Buster Keaton, Film