ESB850 Sociology of the Modern and Contemporary Art

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Blahoslav Rozbořil, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Timetable
Thu 8:20–9:55 zruseno D51
Prerequisites
Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Aesthetics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main goal of the course is to clear up social elements connected to art valuation. That goal makes background of each particular lectured subject matter: art as ideology, art servitude, art in public space, social history of art atc. An ideal course leaver knows concepts genuine to and relevant for sociologic analysis of art, s/he is able to recognize and apply them. S/he also knows concepts naturally relevant to the mentioned goal: e. g. function of art, reception, censorship, outer value, context, heteronomy, progress, historicism.
Syllabus
  • 1. What i sand is not sociology of art 2. Key concepts: context, value et al. 3. Economy of artistic production, reception, and practice 4. Contextual interpretation: marxism et al. 5. H. Taine: Philosophy of Art 6. Pierre Bourdieu aesthetics ans sociology 7. Historicism: Popper, progress in art, artistic betterness 8. Social conditions: Masaryk, Petrusek et al. 9. Arnold Gehlen aesthetics ans sociology 10. György Lukács aesthetics ans sociology
Literature
  • DURKHEIM, Émile. Sociologie a sociální vědy (Přít.) : Sociologie a filosofie ; Sociologie a sociální vědy. info
  • MASARYK, Tomáš Garrigue. Pokus o konkrétní logiku : (třídění a soustava věd) : Versuch einer concreten Logik (Orig.). Edited by Jindřich Srovnal. 1. čes. vyd. Praha: Masarykův ústav AV ČR, 2001, 261 s. ISBN 80-86495-05-1. info
  • POPPER, Karl R. Bída historicismu. Translated by Jana Odehnalová. 2., rev. vyd. Praha: Oikoymenh, 2000, 134 s. ISBN 8072980076. info
  • PETRUSEK, Miloslav. Alternativní sociologie :úvahy o smyslu sociologie v nealternativní společnosti. Praha: Klub osvobozeného samizdatu (KOS), 1992, 221 s. ISBN 80-901093-5-7. info
  • LUKÁCS, György. Umění jako sebepoznání lidstva. Edited by Petr Rákos, Translated by Růžena Grebeníčková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1976, 447 s. URL info
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. Zur Soziologie der symbolischen Formen. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 200 s. ISBN 3518077077. info
  • GEHLEN, Arnold. Duch ve světě techniky. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda, 1972, 163 s. URL info
Assessment methods
written exam, discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011.
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