Philosophy of Art

View of West Virginia's gentle, rural landscape, taken from Skyline Drive near Shenandoah river                                                                                   
 
Course Resources:   Topics: Journals: Museums:
Syllabus Aesthetics Online Aristos Salvador Dali
Paper Guidelines Arts Journal Arts and Letters Daily Guggenheim
eReserves Art21 Basilisk Louvre
Library Phil Resources Gombrich Archive British Journal of Aesthetics Met Museum
Google Scholar   Canadian Aesthetics Journal MoMA
Google Image Paleoaesthetics Cinetext: Film and Philosophy Mint Museums
Philosophy Research Base Rock Music and Art Contemporary Aesthetics National Gallery of Art
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Leonardo Online Empirical Studies of the Arts National Palace Museum
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Aesthetics Blog Film and Philosophy Picasso
Aristotle's Poetics   Journal of Aesthetic Education Smart Museum of Art
Plato's Symposium   Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Warhol

             A fresco taken from the north wall of the Tomb of the Diver featuring an image of a symposium

                         Monday                         Wednesday                                 Assignments
  8/23: Introduction, etc.  Read first half of Plato's Symposium
8/28: Plato 8/30: Plato  Read second half of Symposium
9/4: Labor Day- No Class 9/6: Selections from the Republic  Selection on eReserves
9/11: Medieval Aesthetics * 9/13: Aquinas  Handout in front of Office
9/18: Aquinas 9/20: Hume (Textbook pp. 137-150)  
9/25: Textbook pp. 150-171 * 9/27: Textbook pp. 244-264  
10/2: pp. 236-243, 264-273 10/4: Textbook pp. 274-293  
10/9: Textbook pp. 19-32
        But is it Art? pp. 60-89 
10/11: Group One Presentation
          Danto: pp. 33-44,
          But is it Art? pp. 30-59
 
10/16: Textbook pp. 44-54 *
          But is it Art? pp. 122-147
10/18: Group Two Presentation
          Museums: pp. 103-127
          But is it Art? pp. 90-121
 
10/23: Textbook pp. 300-304 10/25: Group Three Presentation
          Genius: pp. 305-323
          But is it Art? pp. 122-147
 
10/30: Textbook pp. 324-332 11/1: Group Four Presentation
        Artist and Society:
        pp. 332-353
 
11/6: Psychoanalysis and Art 11/8: Group Five Presentation
        The Aesthetic: pp. 78-97
 
11/13: Psychoanalysis and Art 11/15: No Class  Selection on eReserves
11/20: No Class 11/22: No Class*  
11/27: Environmental Aesthetics 11/29: Group Six Presentation
          Art and Technology:
          But is it Art? pp. 177-205   
 
12/4: Environmental Aesthetics 12/6: Last Day of Class*  Handout
* Designates that a writing    assignment is due (see below).    

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