ART 4560 - Aesthetics and Criticism

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North Georgia College & State University

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3 hours Prerequisite: ART 2520. A detailed examination of philosophical and critical interpretations of art and architecture, with particular focus upon the viewer's experience and interpretation of art and the roles art and artists have played in different cultures and civilizations from Ancient Greece to the present. Emphasis is placed on philosophical, critical, and analytical writings on art in the West from the eighteenth century to the present; theories examined may include those of Plato, Aristotle, Leon Battista Alberti, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Leo Tolstoy, Clive Bell, John Dewey, Clement Greenberg, Stanley Fish, Michael Baxandall, Linda Nochlin, and Susan Sontag. Significant outside readings are the basis of in-depth class discussions.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.northgeorgia.edu

Phone Number:

(706) 864-1400

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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