Course: Limits of Aesthetics

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Course title Limits of Aesthetics
Course code KZU/ZHEM
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Zahrádka Pavel, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1st Introduction to aesthetics, aesthetics and culture, aesthetics culture 2nd Disputes about art, art and / vs. Culture 3rd High / Single versus popular art / culture 4th The problem of aesthetic evaluation 5th Politics and Ideology 6th Feminist Aesthetics 7th Aesthetics, politics and ideology 8th Aesthetic aspects of power 9th Art and symbolic violence 10th Final discussion

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
Learning outcomes
Introduction to Media Studies course builds on Introduction to teri media communication and a deeper analysis of the issue devoted to media communication as a central theme of media studies. Students will learn the basic themes of the field of media studies and various theoretical and analytical approaches to the field of applied field. In the first part of the course the course will focus on outlining the coverage of media studies and paradigmatic structure - ie report used different theoretical and analytical approaches. The second part will focus on the possibilities of using this knowledge in communication are journalistic reflection. At the end of the course students will be familiar with key theories, describing the different dimensions and aspects of the process of media communication.
Students will acquire skills of the course according to sylabus
Prerequisites
The aim of this course is to introduce selected basic problems and issues of aesthetics and subject them to critical analysis in terms of cultural studies. Solutions selected problems "pure" aesthetics, we will look beyond the field of social, political and economic relations. Furthermore, we will deal with contemporary art criticism and aesthetics as an ideological device that serves to promote violence and symbolic justification of social inequality.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

1st Presentation of paper by the assignment and the dates 2nd Final Colloquium
Recommended literature
  • Berger, John. Ways of Seeing, Penguin: London, 1972..
  • CARROLL, Noël. (1998). A Philosophy of Mass Art. Oxford.
  • Debord, Guy. Společnost spektáklu. Praha: Intu, 2007.
  • Mitchell, Thomas. Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986..
  • Novitz, David. "Ways of Artmaking: The High and the Popular in Art" in: British Journal of Aesthetics, 29 (1989), 213-229..
  • PACHMANOVÁ, Martina. Věrnost v pohybu. Hovory o feminismu, dějinách a vizualitě. Praha: One Woman Press, 2001.
  • PETERSON, Richard. , "Understanding Audience Segmentation: From Elite and Mass to Omnivore and Univore" in: Poetics 21 (1992), s. 243-258.
  • Veblen, Thorstein. Teorie zahálčivé třídy, Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 1999..


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