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Program Type: 
Thesis
Course Code: 
ART540
Course Type: 
Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
15
Course Language: 
English
Course Content: 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of philosophy of art and aesthetics. The basic topics of aesthetics and basic figures are selected to be discussed. At the end of the course students will be able to discuss the evolution of art in the conceptual way, will have the sufficient knowledge to evaluate and discuss the backgrounds of art styles and art works and also will have the understanding of social, ideological, philosophical interralations of art.

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Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT
Week Topics Study Materials
1 Introduction in the class, its form and content  
2 The Classic Age - Plato and Aristotle (450 BC)  
3 The Middle Ages-Aquinas (AD 400-1500), The Renaissance (15th and 16th century)  
4 Aesthetics, Enlightenment and Historicism -Baumgarten,Kant,Herder (18th century)  
5 Romanticism, Schiller, Hegel (18th century)  
6 Early Modernism, Nietzsche (19th century)  
7 Modernism 20th century, Heidegger (1900 - 1945)  
8 Midterm  
9 The Thoughts and Aesthetics of the Modern Avant-Gardes (1900 - 1945)  
10 Communism and Fascism, Lenin and Hitler,  (1900 - 1945)  
11 Art in the Post War Era, Conceptual Art Theory, Feminism, Institutional Critique  
12 Postmodernism and Contemporary Art, Danto (1980 - 1990)  
13 Contemporary Art 1 (after 2000)  
14 Contemporary Art 2 (after 2000)  

 

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES
  1. A History of Western Thought (Skirbekk & Gilje, Routledge, 2001)
  2. Art in Theory II (Harrison & Wood, Blackwell Publishing, 2003)
  3. Art in Theory 1648 - 1815 (Harrison & Wood, Blackwell Publishing, 2000)
  4. Estetik Beğeni (İsmail Tunalı, Remzi, 2011)
  5. Estetik (İsmail Tunalı, Remzi Kitapevi, 1989, 2012)
  6. Sanat Ontolojisi (İsmail Tunalı, İnkılap, 2014)      
  7. Estetik ve Sanat Felsefesi (Ömer Naci Soykan, Pinhan, 2015)

 

 
- Platon, Devlet, İstanbul, 2006

- Platon, Şölen (Symposion), İstanbul, 2007

- Townsend, D., Estetiğe Giriş, Ankara, 2002.

- Williams, R.., Art Theory, 2004

 

 

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