ESB071 A History of the Aesthetic Categories: Beauty, Form, Creativity

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Zrno Vondrů, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Petr Osolsobě, Ph.D.
Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Ivana Vašinová
Supplier department: Department of Aesthetics – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:10–15:45 U11
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The goal of the course is to introduce the basic concepts and categories of history of aesthetics. The seminar is going to be focused on the history concepts of beauty, form, imitation. At the end of the course students will be able to describe and analyze these concepts in the history of aesthetics.
Syllabus
  • History of Aesthetics I, II, III by Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz - content, method, contexts
  • Concepts of aesthetics - art, beauty, form, imitation, artistic creation, aesthetic experience
  • beauty - history, categories
  • form - one term with five meanings
  • artistic creation - artist and art
Literature
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dzieje sześciu pojęć : sztuka, piękno, forma twórczość, odtwórczość przeżycie estetyczne. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1976. info
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Wladyslav. A history of six ideas. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1980.
  • ARISTOTELÉS. Poetika. Praha: Gryf, 1993, 67 s. ISBN 80-85829-01-0. info
  • PLATÓN. Faidros. Translated by František Novotný. V Praze: Jan Laichter, 1937, xii, 82. info
  • PLATÓN. Ústava. Translated by František Novotný. 4., opr. vyd. Praha: OIKOYMENH, 2005, 427 s. ISBN 8072981420. info
  • VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Marcus. Deset knih o architektuře. Praha: Svoboda, 1979. info
  • AUGUSTIN. O pořádku ; O učiteli. Edited by Karel Svoboda - Augustin. V Praze: nákladem České akademie věd a umění, 1942, 127 s. info
  • KANT, Immanuel. Kritika soudnosti. Edited by Milan Sobotka, Translated by Vladimír Špalek - Walter Hansel. Vyd. 1. Praha: Odeon, 1975, 271 s. info
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1985, 521 s. info
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1988, 456 s. info
  • TATARKIEWICZ, Władysław. Dejiny estetiky. Bratislava: Tatran, 1991, 422 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures, class discussion, reading, homework
Assessment methods
participation on the lecture 70%, presentation of the individual work, written test consists of lectured items and a given text
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
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. Pro ostatní obory není zápis omezen.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2015.
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