Topics in Philosophy of Art

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Teaching combines expository introductory lessons on major themes with extensive discussion of texts and problems in the field of philosophy of art.

Learning Outcomes

1. Clarify the conceptual scope of Philosophy of Art ;

2. Clarify the meaning of a "speculative Philosophy of Art" ;

3. Distinguish Philosophy of Art from Aesthetics:

4. Deepen reading and interpretation skills of classical philosophical texts, regardless of their chronological context;

5. To problematize the specific themes of fundamental texts in relation to the general problem of the philosophical enunciation of aesthetic experience and art;

6. Conceptualize the complexity of the proximity and distance between "philosophy" and "art".

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The scope of Philosophy of Art.

1.1. Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics: differences and intersections

1.2. Fundamental problems of Philosophy of Art

2. Philosophy of Art and Contemporary Art

2.1. The new publics.

3.2. The new "old" status of the artist.

3.3. The question of the meaning of Art

3.4. New materials and new "objects".

3.5. Philosophy of art and instances of legitimation of art.

Head Lecturer(s)

Edmundo Manuel Porém Balsemão Pires

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

CHATEAU, Dominique, La philosophie de l'art:fondation et fondements. Paris: l'Harmattan, 2000

DANTO, Arthur, The philosophical disenfranchisement of art. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993

SCHAEFFER, Jean-Marie, L'art de l'âge moderne. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.

JONES, Amelia (org.) A Companion to Comtemporary Art since 1945, (Blackwell Publishing, 2006).

MAISON ROUGE, Isabel A Arte Contemporânea, trad. port. Inquérito, Lisboa, 2013 (ver seleção de textos em Nonio) (**)

CHATEAU, Dominique, La philosophie de l'art: fondation et fondements (Paris: l'Harmattan, 2000).