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Academic Year 2004/2005

Philosophy of the Arts: Theories of Painting and Mourning
COL 269 FA
Crosslistings:
PHIL 283

The course will explore a range of 20th-century Western painting. We will read and discuss a handful of very recent essays that theorize contemporary painting according to the two related concepts of the psychoanalytic explanation of mourning and the literary figure of allegory. The challenge will be to judge to what extent the theories expand or even explain our visual experience of the paintings.

MAJOR READINGS

Will include selections from some of the following: Freud, Walter Benjamin, Gyorgy Lukacs, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Crimp, Yve-Alain Bois, Craig Owens, Jean Genet.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Several short papers.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005

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