ESTETICA

To acknowledge the main philosophical issues related to the aesthetic experience; to develop a critical approach to the contemporary discussion on art and perception.

The principles of the Western aesthetics. In particular, the course will focus on the issue of the Beautiful vs. Nature in Ingres’ artistic creation, and on kalliphobia as a result of the unresolved epistemological identity of contemporary aesthetics.

- E. Franzini, Introduzione all’estetica, Il Mulino, Bologna 2012 (pp. 232)

- J.-A.-D. Ingres, Pensieri sull’arte, ed. by Elena Pontiggia, Abscondita, Milano 2003 (pp. 128)

- A. Danto, La trasfigurazione del banale. Una filosofia dell’arte, Laterza, Bari-Roma 2008 (pp. 270)

- L. Russo (ed. by), Dopo l’Estetica, Aesthetica Preprint Supplementa 2010, pp. 248. The text can be downloaded for free on the website of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Estetica.