ESB850 Sociology of the Modern and Contemporary Art

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
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 C33
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
there are 10 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
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
  • HAUSER, Arnold. Filosofie dějin umění. Translated by Bohumil Pánek. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 316 s. URL info
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. Teorie jednání. Translated by Věra Dvořáková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 1998, 179 s. ISBN 8071845183. info
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. The rules of art : genesis and structure of the literary field. Translated by Susan Emanuel. First published. Cambridge: Polity, 1996, xviii, 410. ISBN 9780745611525. info
  • BOURDIEU, Pierre. Zur Soziologie der symbolischen Formen. 1. Aufl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974, 200 s. ISBN 3518077077. info
  • BECKER, Howard S. Art worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, xiv, 392 s. ISBN 0-520-05218-8. info
  • The sociology of art : a reader. Edited by Jeremy Tanner. New York: Routledge, 2003, xi, 265. ISBN 0415308836. info
  • HARRINGTON, Austin. Art and social theory : sociological arguments in aesthetics. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004, vii, 237. ISBN 0745630391. info
  • ZOLBERG, Vera L. Constructing a sociology of the arts. Repr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xii, 252. ISBN 0521359597. info
Teaching methods
Regular lectures completed with class discussions.
Assessment methods
written exam, discussion
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on course enrolment limitations: posluchači bc. estetiky, kteří začali své studium před více než třemi semestry, musí mít splněnu postupovou zkoušku (ESAPZE), jinak si tento předmět nemohou zapsat
Teacher's information
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011.
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