Aestethics: an overview; aesthetics and design; Andy Warhol
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Lecture
Type of Assessment
Oral
Course program
The course aims, in its first part, to address the most relevant historical and theoretical issues of the discipline (ancient aesthetics, the beautiful, the birth of modern aesthetics, the judgment). A second part will focus on the relationship between aesthetics and design (the problem of the goods, the link between form and function, aesthetic theories on the design). A final part has a monographic character and has as its theme the aesthetics of Andy Warhol.
Suggested readings
1) P. Sauvanet, Elementi di estetica, il Mulino 2008;
2) A. Mecacci, Estetica e design, il Mulino 2012;
3) A. Mecacci, Introduzione a Andy Warhol, laterza 2008.
