PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS IN ART

Course Code:

PHIL 472

Course Type:

Area Elective

P:

3

Lab:

0

Laboratuvar Saati:

0

Credits:

3

ECTS:

5

Course Language:

English

Course Objectives:

The purpose of this course is to discuss and question philosophical problematics through art and literature. The students are expected to contribute with visual and literary material. Generating a discussion around philosophical problems and issues that we encounter in our artistic experiences. How art evolves and changes will be the main problematic through which we will be addresing “gaze”, “representation”, “power”, etc.

Course Content:

This course is designed for philosophy students as well as informed students from other programmes to discuss and question philosophical problematics through art and literature. The students are expected to contribute with visual and literary material.

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion

Course Evaluation Methods:

A: Exam , B: Experience C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes Upon the completion of this course a student:	Program Learning Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
1. acquires knowledge about aesthetic theories and discusses them in terms of philosophy	1,2,3,4	1,2,3	A,C
2. acquires the ability for philosophical questioning in aesthetics	2,3,6	1,2,3	A,C
3. analyzes works of art on the philosophical ground	3,6,10	1,2,3	A,C
4. acquires knowledge about contemporary art movements in a theorethical manner	4,5,9	1,2,3	A,C
5. acquires knowledge about difference between astehetics and philosophy of art.	9,10	1,2,3	A,C

Course Flow

Week	Topics	Study Materials
1	Introduction
2	Dicussion concerning the problem of art
3	André Breton, from the First Manifesto of Surrealism, 1924 Jean Goudal, Surrealism and Cinema, 1925 Antonin Artaud, Witchcraft and the Cinema, 1930 Screening: Luis Bunuel, Un Chien Andalou, 1929
4	Alain Robbe-Grillet, Commitment, 1957 Theodor Adorno, from ‘Commitment’, 1962 Gilles Deleuze, “Sheets of Past According to Resnais…”,1985 Screening: Alain Resnais, L’année Derniére a Marienbad, 1961
5	Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, “Daugerretype”, 1839 Charles Baudelaire, “The Modern Public and Photography”, 1859 Robert Ray, “Snapshots: The Beginning of Photography”, 1997 Powerpoint: Nineteenth Century Photography
6	Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, 1981 John Berger, “Understanding a Photograph”, 1974 Screening: Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow Up, 1966
7	Paul Cezanne, “Letters to Emile Bernard”, 1904-6 Maurice Denis, “Cezanne”, 1907 Wassily Kandinsky, “The Cologne Lecture”, 1914 Paul Klee, from On Modern Art, 1924/45 Powerpoint: Modern Painting
8	MIDTERM
9	Jean-Paul Sartre, from Existentialism and Humanism, 1946 Barnett Newman, “The Sublime is Now”, 1948 Jackson Pollock, Interview with William Wright, 1950 Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting”, 1961
10	Donald Judd, “Specific Objects”, 1965 Robert Morris, “Notes on Sculpture 1-3”, 1966-7 Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood”, 1967 Robert Wollheim, “The Work of Art as Object”, 1970 Screening: BBC documentry on sculpture
11	Leo Steinberg, Other Criteria, 1968-1972 Jean Baudrillard, The Beauborg Effect: Implosion and Deterrence, 1977 Rosalind Krauss, from “The Originality of the Avant-Garde”, 1981
12	Victor Burgin, from “The Absence of Presence”, 1984 Jean François Lyotard, “What is Postmodernism?”, 1982
13	Jean François Lyotard, “Representation, Presentation, Unpresentable”, 1991 Edward Said, “Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Communities”, 1981 Gayatri Chacravorti Spivak, “Who Claims Alterity?”,1989 Screening: Fatih Akın, Duvara Karşı, 2004
14	Peter Brunette-David Wills, The Spatial Arts: An Interview with Jacques Derrida, 1990 Mark Wigley, The Domestication of the House: Deconstruction After Architecture, 1993
15	Final Examination

Recommended Sources

Textbook
Additional Resources	David Goldblatt & Lee B. Brown (2004), Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, Prentice Hall.

Material Sharing

Documents
Assignments
Exams

Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Mid-terns	1	30
Assignments	3	30
Final Examination	1	40
Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE		40
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE		60
Total		100

COURSE CATEGORY

Area Specific Course

Course’s Contribution to Program

No	Programme Outcomes	Contribution
No	Programme Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	Grasps the fundamental concepts and analytical methods necessary to succeed in academic studies in the field of philosophy.				X
2	Acquires a versatile critical and analytical approach, and problem-solving, interpretative and argumentative skills necessary for a successful career in philosophy.					X
3	Communicates effectively, is specifically successful in written and oral presentation, has proper capacities for teamwork and interdisciplinary studies, takes the initiative, has developed a sense of responsibility, contributes original ideas to the field of philosophy, and is loyal to ethical principles.					X
4	Reaches the perfection of pursuing professional and personal development by using all means of knowledge with a view to lifelong learning.			X
5	Develops a consciousness of professional and social ethics.			X
6	Gains the skills of choosing and developing contemporary means required in philosophical applications as well as using computing technologies effectively.				X
7	Acquires substantial knowledge of the history of philosophy.				X
8	Learns a classical and at least one modern foreign language so as to read the historical texts of philosophy in the original.		X
9	Pinpoints, recognizes, grasps and discusses the problems of philosophy within their context in the history of philosophy.				X
10	Develops perfection in reading, understanding and analyzing philosophical texts in different languages.					X

ECTS

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours)	15	3	45
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	15	2	30
Mid-terms	1	15	15
Assignments	3	5	15
Final Examination	1	20	20
Total Work Load			125
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			5
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

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