Aesthetics II

Code:

E202

Acronym:

EII

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Art Sciences

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Ciências da Arte e do Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	34	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	2	-	3	30	81
LD	18	Plano de estudos de LD_publicaçao em DR de 7 de junho de 2022	2	-	3	30	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To understand the implication between the artistic and creative forms of representation and the representations of subject and world it implies.

To enhance the performance of critical reflection and informed that has as its aim the creation and reception of works of art.

To think creative practice as an investigation about thinking about the cultural and instruments representing the world as a human experience.

To understand of the process of the historical development of the values and conceptual tools inherent to the aesthetic experience.

Learning outcomes and competences

To understand the formation and development of models of thought and key conceptual frameworks for modern and contemporary.
To develop critical autonomy.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Program

A) Walter Benjamin: "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction '- The nostalgia of the ideal representation.

 B) T. Adorno: Art as transformation of the real; art and communication; the requiring radical of artistic research.

 C) J.-F. Lyotard and Derrida: the critique of logocentrism
       a)-F. Lyotard: experimentation as a privileged mode of creative action in postmodernity
        b) Derrida: Deconstruction - The limits of representation.

 D) Arthur C. Danto: The notion of the art world - questioning.

Author / must-read book and cross-linkage with other authors: Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator.

Mandatory literature

Jacques Rancière; O^espectador emancipado. ISBN: 978-989-8327-06-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Teaching methodologies: the reduced number of contact hours and the large number of students enrolled methodologies condition. We opted for presenting lectures, on contact hours, and to boost the autonomy of the students through the provided of bibliographic materials.

Similarly, the high number of students enrolled determines the methodologies reviewed. Written examination. In this, the evaluation criteria are the following: scientific and conceptual rigor; adequate responses to the problem posed; critical distance; expertise demonstrated.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Trabalho escrito	51,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Idem.

Calculation formula of final grade

Classification obtained in the exam.