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):
W.Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age if its Mechanical Reproduction
G. Careri. Flights of Love.
A.Danto, The Abuse of Beauty
M. Duchamp, The Creative Act
P. Florensky, Inverted Perspective
F.Hegel, Lectures on Aesthetics
H. Focillon, The Life of Forms
L. Henderson, Duchamp in Context
W. Kandinsky, The Spiritual in Art
I.Kant, Critique of Judgement
N. Luhmann, Art as a Social System
B. Newman, The Sublime is Now
E. Panofsky, Perspective as Symbolic Form
Plato, Republic X, Phaedrus, Symposium
Ramachandran, The Science of Art
REFERENCE TEXT:
L. Shiner, The Invention of Art
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
The painter in Teorema by P.P.Pasolini
Lars von Trier, 5 Obstructions
Bill Vorn, Le Procés