FF:ESAA29 Visual Art - Course Information
ESAA29 Visual Art
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
The course is not taught in Spring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. Kenneth Gordon Hay (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Rostislav Niederle, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- No prerequisites are required.
- 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
- Aesthetics and Culture Studies (programme FF, N-EST_) (3)
- Aesthetics (programme FF, B-EST_) (3)
- Course objectives
- The aim is to present the philosophical background of fine art through representative examples.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will gain a comprehensive insight into the elementary issues of the relationship between philosophy and art, using selected examples: - Modernism and its key aspects - Philosophical background of Cubism - Kant and Dadaism - Giotto, Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites
- Syllabus
- 4. lectures Modernism and its key aspects Philosophical background of Cubism Kant and Dadaism Giotto, Ruskin and the Pre-Raphaelites
- Literature
- The Routledge companion to aesthetics. Edited by Berys Nigel Gaut - Dominic Lopes. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2005, xx, 705. ISBN 9780415327985. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- Final essay (min. 10000 characters including spaces) on one of the 4 given topics. Assessed on scope of knowledge, originality, clarity and readability.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Teacher's information
- https://kghay.com/about/
Kenneth G. Hay is an artist, writer and educator, Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Leeds (a department he founded) and Visiting Professor of Aesthetics at Masaryk University in Brno. CZ.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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