Learning objectives
Educational Purposes:
The aim of the course is to bridge the gap between the different approaches to art through the contribution of theories that prevent art from reducing it to a variable totally dependent or totally indipendent on culture. Art has a leading role in inventing and emphasizing meanings, styles, and ideas which initially promote additional "nuclei" of aesthetic truht, the facilitate clotting cultural features which end with change our worldview.
Prerequisites
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Course unit content
Contents:
The course is divided in two parts: the first one focuses on the aesthetic aspects of art (which are oriented to); the second one focuses on the sociological perspectives characterizing a community. The aim of the course is to provide a well-defined portrait of the main characters who regulate the art system. Effectively, the sociological point of view allows us to examine in depth some aspects of the complex artistic phenomenon that are generally neglected.
Full programme
The course aims at examinating different critical problems of Sociology of Art, investigating the artistic production phenomenon in a equidistant perspective from the “absolute autonomy of art”point of wiew and from the “eteronomy of art as social product” perspective. Aesthetically relevant phenomena, and not autonomy of art in itself (and not for sure the nature of beauty), are the object of sociological analysis. So, the claim that the future of art sociology coincides with its separation from aesthetic reflection is a false answer to a false problem. It will be made clear that Sociology of Art is a chiefly multidisciplinar subject, and it is not possible to “circumscribe” and “compress” it in a single paradigm.
Bibliography
R. Strassoldo, Da David a Saatchi, Forum, 2010.
Teaching methods
Frontal lectures
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral test
Other information
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