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B003393 - AESTHETICS
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Academic Year 2020-21
Course year
Third year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-FIL/04 - AESTHETICS
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
14/09/2020 ⇒ 04/12/2020
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B003393 - ESTETICA
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in STUDIES IN ARTS, MUSIC AND THEATER
B003393 - ESTETICA
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in STUDIES IN ARTS, MUSIC AND THEATER
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Kitsch. Used improperly as a synonym for "bad taste", the term "kitsch" refers to one of the most important aesthetic categories of the last century. This course describes its genesis and historical development in its major stages
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
a) Andrea Mecacci, Il kitsch, il Mulino 2014.
b) Marco Belpoliti, Gianfranco Marrone (a cura), Kitsch, Quodlibet 2020 (in the anthology section texts by: Popper, Benjamin, Adorno, Elias, Greenberg, Nabokov, Broch, Macdonald, Rosenberg, Giesz, Sontag, Eco, Dorfles, Moles).
b) Marco Belpoliti, Gianfranco Marrone (a cura), Kitsch, Quodlibet 2020 (in the anthology section texts by: Popper, Benjamin, Adorno, Elias, Greenberg, Nabokov, Broch, Macdonald, Rosenberg, Giesz, Sontag, Eco, Dorfles, Moles).
Learning Objectives
Knowledge and Understanding: acquisition of an appropriate historical and critical framing of the main theories of modern aesthetics from the XVIII century to contemporaneity.
Applying Knowledge and understanding: acquisition of an appropriate critical frame of aesthetic theories and their possible operative implications; focus on the relationship between aesthetics and the performing arts by the acquisition of a bibliographic and documentary equipment.
Making Judgements: basic analytical skills in the field of aesthetics.
Communication Skills: confidence with both the philosophical lexicon and the bibliographic instruments useful to the further exploration of contemporary aesthetics' themes.
Learning Skills: development of skills of conceptual elaboration and critical analysis.
Applying Knowledge and understanding: acquisition of an appropriate critical frame of aesthetic theories and their possible operative implications; focus on the relationship between aesthetics and the performing arts by the acquisition of a bibliographic and documentary equipment.
Making Judgements: basic analytical skills in the field of aesthetics.
Communication Skills: confidence with both the philosophical lexicon and the bibliographic instruments useful to the further exploration of contemporary aesthetics' themes.
Learning Skills: development of skills of conceptual elaboration and critical analysis.
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Frontal classes with the support of slideshow, focusing on the development of a dialogic interaction.
Further information
Attendance is not mandatory although highly recommended.
Type of Assessment
The final exam will take place in oral form. The session will verify the level of knowledge the students reached after the completion of the course. The talk also aims at verifying the development of critical and conceptual competences.
Course program
Title: Kitsch.
Used improperly as a synonym for "bad taste", the term "kitsch" refers to one of the most important aesthetic categories of the last century. This course describes its genesis and historical development in three major stages. In the first stage, stretching from 1900 to the middle of the 20th century, kitsch is an ethical problem, an evil intrinsic to the art system that generated veritable behaviour models. The second stage coincides with the advent of mass culture, in which kitsch is a feature of increasingly shared experiences of cultural consumption. In the final stage, the language of kitsch overlaps with the very definition of postmodernism and the hybrid practices of contemporary art, including camp and trash.
Used improperly as a synonym for "bad taste", the term "kitsch" refers to one of the most important aesthetic categories of the last century. This course describes its genesis and historical development in three major stages. In the first stage, stretching from 1900 to the middle of the 20th century, kitsch is an ethical problem, an evil intrinsic to the art system that generated veritable behaviour models. The second stage coincides with the advent of mass culture, in which kitsch is a feature of increasingly shared experiences of cultural consumption. In the final stage, the language of kitsch overlaps with the very definition of postmodernism and the hybrid practices of contemporary art, including camp and trash.