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
G. Careri, Flights of Love
V. Chlebnikov, The Radio of the Future
M. Duchamp, The Creative Act
D. Hockney, Secret Knowledge
I. Kant, Critique of Judgement
R. Lapucci, Caravaggio and Optics
Lister et al. New Media. A Critical introduction
M.McLuhan, Understanding Media
B. Newman, The Sublime is Now
Alva Noe, Action in Perception
Plato, Republic X, Ion, Timaeus
Ramachandran, The Science of Art
P. Virilio, The Accident of Art
REFERENCE TEXTS:
The Routledge Companion of Aesthetics (online)
L. Shiner, The Invention of Art
L. Henderson, Duchamp in Context
EXCERPTS FROM VIDEOS:
A. Sokurov, Russian Ark/C.Marker, La Jétée/L. von Trier, 5 Obstructions
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dalì, Un chien andalou
Salvador Dalì and Walt Disney, Destino
Glitch music (Autechre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acuwRHIWL_o)
tUnE-yArDs
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_5vG0-bvP0&index=16&list=PLZOSzAYzK66-dqykA2ucT5oN-OUQSix0u)
Theo Jansen, Animaris
Jordan Wolfson, Female Figure
Joseph Nachavatal, Computer virus project
William Kentridge, Automatic Writing
Stelarc, The Body is Obsolete
Schneider/Beckett/Buster Keaton, Film
Roberta Lapucci on Caravaggio
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXYfpnp_IA)