HISTORY OF AESTHETICS
Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher:
IVANA ANNA RANDAZZO
Expected Learning Outcomes
The course analyzes history of aesthetics authors and themes since antiquity, with particular reference to some key categories such as creation, form, symbol, artistic perception, expressiveness, imagination, imitation, fruition. The aim, according to the Dublin descriptors, is to provide students with some notions related to the modern and contemporary historical-artistic debate, in order to understand and deepen the fundamental issues of the discipline and develop autonomous judgments. The aesthetic studies, object of the course, will increase the ability to interpret aesthetic phenomena in general and will develop the student's expressive and argumentative ability. The ability to organize the data provided by the discipline in a critical and creative way will be stimulated and students will be able to relate aesthetic ideas with other fields of knowledge.
Course Structure
FRONTAL LESSONS
Required Prerequisites
THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITES
Attendance of Lessons
CLASS ATTENDANCE ISN'T MANDATORY
Detailed Course Content
A - General part (4 ECTS): The main historical
stages of aesthetics: (from Antiquity to the Renaissance, from the Baroque to
the eighteenth century, Idealism, Romanticism, Marxism, Neoidealism,
Positivism, Evolutionism, Psychological Aesthetics, Linguistics, Semiotics,
Human Sciences, Vitalism, Pragmatism, Analytical Aesthetics, Phenomenology,
Existentialism, Hermeneutics, Deconstructionism). The themes of aesthetics:
beauty, form, symbol, taste, genius, imagination, mimesis, ugly, sublime,
tragic.
B - Monographic part (2 ECTS):
- Ernst Cassirer: three seminars on art as a
symbolic form (language and art and the educational value of art).
- Ernst Cassirer: three studies on the 'forma formans'. Technique-Space-Language
Textbook Information
A – General
introduction (4 ECTS)
E. Franzini-
M. Mazzocut-Mis, Estetica, Milano,
Mondadori, 2010, pp. VII-XIX e 1-319.
B – Monographic
course (2 ECTS)
E. Cassirer,
Simbolo mito e cultura, Roma-Bari,
Laterza, 1981, pp. 149- 219.
- Ernst Cassirer: tre studi sulla ‘forma formans’.
Tecnica-Spazio-Linguaggio (a cura di G. Matteucci), Bologna, Clueb,
2003, pp. 7-137.
Course Planning
| | Subjects | Text References |
|---|
| 1 | The main historical stages of aesthetics | |
| 2 | Ernst Cassirer: three seminars on art as a
symbolic form (language and art and the educational value of art). | |
| 3 | three studies on the 'forma formans'. Technique-Space-Language | |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
ORALE EXAM
VERSIONE IN ITALIANO
