Teaching code

4S007339

Credits

6

Coordinator

Markus Georg Ophaelders

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-FIL/04 - AESTHETICS

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning objectives

Philosophy of Art and Music The course aims to deepen the knowledge (conceptual, methodological and cultural tools, interpretative theories and artistic practices, learned during the Bachelor degree course) in order to refine their application skills (analyze and interpret the works of art, knowing how to read their texture, insert them in specific areas and cultural and historical environments). The course aims to make people understand the conceptual logics and structures, developing the ability to use a precise and adequate language; moreover, it aims to give the student the skills to confront the art world so that he can independently form a critical judgment and be able to express it in an appropriate language.

Prerequisites and basic notions

No particular prior knowledge is requested.

Program

The course revolves around the concept of experience, understood as daily experience and manifestation of art, and the relative impoverishment to which it has been subjected since the development of modernity which has led to a progressive loss of the body, and therefore of the senses, of the function of medium of experience. In this context, some concepts will be analyzed including: voluntary memory and increased reflexivity in everyday experience, spiritualization, allegory, parody and irony in the artistic one. The itinerary ends with the analysis of Picasso's painting Guernica as representative of the topics covered as well as being evidence of the same period in which Benjamin wrote.

Bibliography

Didactic methods

The course is composed of a frontal part that concerns selected pages of the texts in the program and a part of an exercise that foresees that the students prepare and give reports on other parts of the texts in the program that will be critically discussed in the classroom. These reports will be agreed upon during the first lessons. The course will not be strictly divided into the two parts, but will proceed by spacing them according to the interest that the individual chapters cover. Those who will give a report will see lightened the part to take to the final exam.
Frontal lectures will be recorded, but not the relations held by the students.

Learning assessment procedures

ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
The assessment of the learning outcomes involves an oral test, during which the issues discussed during the course and studied in the texts will be developed. The exam aims at ensuring knowledge of the topics under discussion and the ability to apply the concepts and logical methodologies to the various issues proposed.
This indivisible oral test is about the whole program; it consists of an interview with the teacher and tries to verify:
- the depth and breadth of the knowledge gained;
- the property of language;
- the ability to systematically connect knowledge;
- analytical and argumentative ability.
The vote is expressed in marks from 18 to 30/30.
ERASMUS students are requested to contact the teacher at the beginning of the courses to agree together the teaching methods and the assessment tests.

Evaluation criteria

- the depth and breadth of the knowledge gained;
- the property of language;
- the ability to systematically connect knowledge;
- analytical and argumentative ability.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

If the candidate has given a talk during the lessons the final exam counts half.

Exam language

Italiano