Art Studies 245/Flaudette May Datuin, PhD/FC 2005/09175840760

Course Title:                   ART THEORY AND AESTHETICS

Course Description:     Ideas of Art, What Do Artists Do and Understanding, Experiencing and Evaluating Art

Justification:  To provide students with a range of theoretical and conceptual frameworks on the various arts             

General ScheduleDATES ACTIVITYDecember 5 iDEAS of Art, Modern/ContemporaryDecember 12 Start of reading break December 14 LANTERN PARADE: Write an 800-1, 000 word essay reflecting on

the event framed by any or a combination of readings on “Ideas of Art”

January 7 DEADLINE OF ESSAY ON LANTERN PARADE, maydatuin@hotmail.com

January 19 Field trip to Baler January-February Discussion of readings (with lectures)March Writing break/Workshop (optional)

I. Ideas of Art (December 2012)The classicsArt as Imitation, PlatoArt as CognitionArt as Communicable Pleasure, Immanuel KantArt as the Ideal, Hegel

Source: (The Nature of Art, Wartenberg)

Modern/ContemporaryArt as Technique, Victor Shlovsky (digital copy sent)Art as Cultural System, Clifford Geertz (photocopied, Feagin and Maynard, 1997)The Music of Our Lives, Kathleen Marie Higgins (Feagin and Maynard, 1997)From Work to Text, Roland Barthes (digital copy)

II. What do Artists do? (January 9)Six Canons of Painting, Xie-He (Hsieh Ho) (Feagin and Maynard, 1997)

John Berger, The Shape of a Pocket“Steps Toward a Small Theory of the Visible;” “Penelope;” and “Frida Kahlo.

James Elkins, What Painting Is

Introduction and “A Short Course in Forgetting Chemistry”

Graeme Sullivan, Art Practice as Research. Part II (Theorizing Visual Arts Practice) or whole book (optional) – CAL Library

III. Understanding, Experiencing and Evaluating Art

B. Signs, Codes, Vision (Linguistic Turn/Meaning) (January 16/23)

Hernandez, Jesus, Descent to the sariling mundo: Untangling the complexities of the language of mental health and illness in Filipino (digital)

Datuin, Ang Sine Bilang Wika ng Pakahulugan

Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity, Griselda Pollock (Vision and Difference)

Orientalism, Edward Said (introduction)

Reference: Practices of Looking, Sturken and Cartwright (Chapter 1) – Cal Library on reserve

C. The Field of Cultural Production ((January 30 and February 6)

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproduction, WalterBenjamin

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, Theodore Adornoand Max Horkheimer (During 2007)

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, Linda Nochlin (digital)

Bourdieu The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic

Sarah Adams, Performing Dress and Adornment in Southeastern Nigeria

Mitchell, “The Work of Art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction” (from What do pictures want?)

A. The Body: Affect, Emotion, Sense-Perception (Phenomenology and the Affective Turn) February 13-27

Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag (digital)

Robert Desjarlais, Aesthetics of Experience (photocopied) and “Struggling Along: The Possibilities for Experience Among the Homeless Mentally Ill (digital)kitchie

Music and Negative Emotions, Jerrold Levinson (Feagin and Maynard, 1997)

Juhani Pallasmaa, Skin of the Eyes and Embodied Image (books)

Cabalfin, Edson, Mala-Baklang Espasyo Sa Arkitekturang Filipino (digital)

Luhrmann, Tanya, “How God Becomes Intimate in Contemporary US Christianity” (digital)

Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (digital)

The Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Harraway

Liz James, Senses and Sensibility in Byzantium (photocopy)

Angela Rosenthal, Visceral Culture, blushing and the Legibility of Whiteness in 18th C British Portraiture