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Presentation
Presentation
Aesthetics is a CU that aims at the development of critical thinking in students. It seeks the foundation of aesthetic experience as a corporeal experience, sustained with the body beyond the body, the gaze, touch or sensory kinesthetics in general. It incorporates questions that are of interest to biology, neuroscience, psychology and philosophical anthropology in general; in these questions it doubts the banal status of sensoriality and places it in the instrumental territory of "I" and "chaos", searching for the "logos" (order) after having lost it. This CU fosters the conviction that there are no complete answers, but that questions remain to be asked, whether in art, philosophy or science. It bets on the sense of curiosity, allied to complexity (formal and material), as well as to the creative narrative of Artists (from all areas).
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 3
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
2 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT722-3493
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
What is aesthetics?
a) object
b) method
c) territory
Historical periods of aesthetic thought:
Seniority: case analysis: the Laocoon.
Middle ages: case analysis: Hieronymus Bosch.
Renaissance: case analysis: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
Baroque: case analysis: Johannes Vermeer.
Enlightenment: case analysis: Jacques-Louis David.
Neoclassical and Pre-romantic: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
Romanticism: case analysis: Caspar David Friedrich.
20th century - vanguards and post-vanguards: case analysis: Marcel Duchamp / Constantin Brâncu¿i / Pablo Picasso / Jaspers Johns.
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Objectives
Objectives
a) to know the meaning of ¿aesthetic¿ as a concept;
b) to distinguish aesthetic, arte theory, science of art and philosophy of art;
c) to know what is a Judgment of Taste
d) to acknowledge the historical periods of aesthetic judgment;
e) to identify the human faculties concerned with aesthetic judgment;
f) to frame a proper definition of art;
g) to acknowledge criticism as a creative principle;
h) to be to frame an object as an ¿art object¿;
i) to acknowledge the main aesthetic categories;
j) to recognize the value of ¿art¿ in Western Cultures;
k) to acknowledge the critical historical periods of the function of art and aesthetics;
l) to acknowledge art in its visual, sound, literary and conceptual constituent;
m) to be able to produce a critical judgment on she/he own creative process;
n) to stand a position in the possible meanings of ¿creativity¿.
o) to be able to produce a coherent discourse on an ¿art object¿.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Being a UC of essentially theoretical nature, objectives and skills, the master class seems to be the most relevant methodology: raising problems, delimiting them and applying them will be elements of main use. Likewise, textual heuristics and hermeneutics are methodological resources. The verification and monitoring of skills acquisition is done either by public discussion of the arguments surrounding the problems raised, or by the composition of twelve Classroom Questions (over twelve weeks of lessons). Each master class ends with a relevant Question about the theme (or themes) of that day: students take home as a weekly challenge (in the form of reflection, research and personal construction) an individual written text in response to the Question Class in a critical review format. The teacher evaluates continuously and weekly the work of each student, giving feedback of what he/she considers relevant: understanding, autonomous thinking, creativity, scientific methodology.
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References
References
ARISTÓTELES (2007). Poética. Lisboa: IN/CM.
BOZAL, V. (1999). Historia de las ideas estéticas y de las teorías artísticas contemporáneas. Madrid: António Machado.
ECO, U. (2011). Arte e beleza na estética Medieval. Lisboa: Presença.
HAUSER, A. (2006). O conceito de Barroco. Lisboa: Vega.
HEGEL, G. W.F.(2006). Estética. Lisboa: Guimarães Editora.
HUME, D. (2002). O padrão do gosto. In Ensaios Morais, Políticos e Literários. ( 207-228). Lisboa: IN/CM
KANT, I. (2007). Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo. Lisboa: IN/CM.
MOXEY, K. (2003). Visual Time. The Image in History. Durham: Duke University Press.
PLATÃO (2006). Hípias Menor. Lisboa; Edições 70.
PLATÃO (2007). Hípias Maior. Lisboa: Edições 70.
POCHAT, G.(2008). Historia de la estética y la teoría del arte. De la Antigüedad al siglo XIX.
SARGENTO, P. (2015).Forma, Matéria e Presença. Uma leitura concetual da estética e da história da arte entre os sécs. XIX e XX. Lisboa: Chiado.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
