25522 - Aesthetics II
Compulsory
5.3. Syllabus
Module 1. Art and political engagement.
a) Art and revolution
Mieke Bal: afects, engagement with the present and displacements.
Gerald Raunig: war machines and molecular revolutions.
Gilles Deleuze and a minor politics.
Hal Foster: opposition, dissent and resistance.
Jacques Rancière: the partition of the sensible and the regimes of art.
b) On what we cannot do.
Agamben and the refusal.
Paolo Virno and exodus as a political gesture.
Maurizio Lazzarato and a politics of laziness.
c) What is a political subject?
Maurizio Lazzarato: Events and politics.
Isabelle Stengers: the ecological politics.
Bruno Latour: compositionism.
c) Afects and politics.
Chantal Mouffe: politics and passions.
Angela Mitropoulos: contract and contagion.
Susan Foster: body and empathy.
Module 2. Art and time. Synchronies, anachronies, heterocronies.
a) Art without time.
Norman Bryson. The natural attitude and biological models.
b) Synchronyc interpretations.
Erwin Panofsky, Michael Baxandall and Svetlana Alpers. Art in its historical context.
c) Originals, repetitions and deferred actions:
Peter Bürger, Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster and the relations between avangarde and neo-avantgarde.
d) The borders of History.
Arthur Danto and Post-Historical art.
e) Critique of colonialisms in Art History.
Mieke Bal, Keith Moxey, Georges Didi-Huberman and the anachronies of Art History.