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 (any good editions or online, or books on reserve in the library):
Form:
Plato, Phaedrus
H. Focillon, The Life of Forms
A. Portmann, "What Does the Living Form Mean to Us" in Essays in Philosophical Zoology
Ramachandran, The Science of Art
Perspective::
G. Alberti, On painting
P. Florensky, Reverse Perspective
E. Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form
Baroque and cinema:
G. Careri, Flights of Love
W.Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age if its Mechanical Reproduction
End of Art:
F.Hegel, Lectures on Aesthetics
A.Danto, The Abuse of Beauty
Contingency:
Leonardo, Wonderful Inventions
M. Duchamp, The Creative Act
L. Henderson, Duchamp in Context
A. Breton, Surrealist Manifesto
N.Luhmann, Art as a Social System
P. Virilio, The Accident of Art.
Sublime:
I.Kant, Critique of Judgement
B. Newman, The Sublime is Now
J-F. Lyotard, The Inhuman
REFERENCE TEXT:
L. Shiner, The Invention of Art
EXCERPTS FROM FILMS:
Peter Greenaway, The Draughtsman's Contract
Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dalì, Un chien andalou
Germain Dulac and Antonin Artaud, La coquille et le clergyman
Salvador Dalì and Walt Disney, Destino
The painter in Teorema by P.P.Pasolini
Lars von Trier, 5 Obstructions
William Kentridge, Automatic Writing