Description : Introduction to traditional and modern aesthetic theories. The course aims to provide access to the theoretical framework necessary to discuss questions concerning the status of art, the aesthetic phenomenon and the aesthetic experience. The course highlights the interrelation between aesthetics and aesthetic education, and advances the idea of aesthetic education as a practical philosophy.
Outline : The following topics are examined:
• Art and representation
• Art as expression
• Contemporary aesthetic theories
• Aesthetic perception
• Aesthetic experience
• Meaning in a work of art
• Art and knowledge
• Modernism and aesthetic education
• Post-modernism and aesthetic education
• Aesthetic education as practical philosophy