HUMANITIES
UCI Summer Session I
History of Western Art: Medieval & Renaissance
Art History 40B (4 units) (Fulfills UCI Breadth Requirements IV and VII-B or UCI GE Requirements IV and VII)
Students will discover the roots of the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance work, with a special emphasis on the art of Tuscany. The setting of Arezzo provides the perfect environment to gain first-hand experience of the ancient origins and modern developments of the art produced during these eras. Students will have first-hand encounters with Renaissance palaces, frescoes, and will visit the home of the artist, architect and writer, Giorgio Vasari, a native of Arezzo, who is widely considered to be one of the first art historians. Students will also travel to the city of Florence and visit the Uffizi Gallery, the Accademia, the Duomo, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella and San Lorenzo and the Medici Chapels.
Instructor:
see bio under guest faculty
Spring & Fall Semesters
PHIL I20 Philosophy of Art and Performance
3 Credits
The many paradoxes of the modern world, perhaps first clearly articulated by Rousseau, continue to provide a backdrop to all of our social activity: greater personal freedoms incased in a world of greater social regimentation, increased diversity of choice amidst an inexorable drive toward homogenization, increasing production of wealth along with the dramatic growth of poverty, vastly expanded communications providing the tools to increased isolation and so on.
These paradoxes often go unnoticed as they appear a natural part of life, but these phenomena had an historical development that in turn profoundly affected individual perception. Through an exploration of the development of mass production, the fragmentation and specialization of life and work, the development of the information age, the commodification of culture, the compression of time and space, the disassociation of the body and the aesthetic shifts that have accompanied these developments, this class will philosophically analyze the significance of each. We will think about art—about its nature and its important place in human life.
To facilitate this, the course brings together the writings of philosophers and the work of artists from a variety of domains. The goal is not to intellectualize art but to understand the intelligence that goes into it, to enrich our experiences of art, and to foster our own creative sensibilities. We will consider famous writings on art by thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Breton, Artaud, Eisenstein, Debord, Baudrillard, Foucault and others in relation to important works of literature, theatre, painting, music, architecture and film.
A philosophical analysis with help the artist situate both the work of art and the actual work of the artist in a broader framework where the role of social mediation between the artist, the work of art and the reception of the work is revealed. Likewise, the potential role of the artist and work of art as social mediation can emerge as a stimulus to the creative impulse itself.
The class format will be based on lectures and seminar-style discussions where each student will present a critical summary of at least one of the readings. A portion of the class, when possible, will include a critical examination of the student’s own experience in a particular workshop and may include Butoh dance, clown training for actors or other special workshops or master classes in which students participate.
Instructors: Scott McGehee PhD & Mike Grady MFA
- ART HISTORY: UCI Summer Session I JULY 19 – AUGUST 21
- PHILOSOPHY OF ART & PERFORMANCE: Spring & Fall Semesters
UCI Summer Session I
History of Western Art: Medieval & Renaissance
Art History 40B (4 units) (Fulfills UCI Breadth Requirements IV and VII-B or UCI GE Requirements IV and VII)
Students will discover the roots of the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance work, with a special emphasis on the art of Tuscany. The setting of Arezzo provides the perfect environment to gain first-hand experience of the ancient origins and modern developments of the art produced during these eras. Students will have first-hand encounters with Renaissance palaces, frescoes, and will visit the home of the artist, architect and writer, Giorgio Vasari, a native of Arezzo, who is widely considered to be one of the first art historians. Students will also travel to the city of Florence and visit the Uffizi Gallery, the Accademia, the Duomo, Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella and San Lorenzo and the Medici Chapels.
Instructor:
see bio under guest faculty
Spring & Fall Semesters
PHIL I20 Philosophy of Art and Performance
3 Credits
The many paradoxes of the modern world, perhaps first clearly articulated by Rousseau, continue to provide a backdrop to all of our social activity: greater personal freedoms incased in a world of greater social regimentation, increased diversity of choice amidst an inexorable drive toward homogenization, increasing production of wealth along with the dramatic growth of poverty, vastly expanded communications providing the tools to increased isolation and so on.
These paradoxes often go unnoticed as they appear a natural part of life, but these phenomena had an historical development that in turn profoundly affected individual perception. Through an exploration of the development of mass production, the fragmentation and specialization of life and work, the development of the information age, the commodification of culture, the compression of time and space, the disassociation of the body and the aesthetic shifts that have accompanied these developments, this class will philosophically analyze the significance of each. We will think about art—about its nature and its important place in human life.
To facilitate this, the course brings together the writings of philosophers and the work of artists from a variety of domains. The goal is not to intellectualize art but to understand the intelligence that goes into it, to enrich our experiences of art, and to foster our own creative sensibilities. We will consider famous writings on art by thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Schiller, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Breton, Artaud, Eisenstein, Debord, Baudrillard, Foucault and others in relation to important works of literature, theatre, painting, music, architecture and film.
A philosophical analysis with help the artist situate both the work of art and the actual work of the artist in a broader framework where the role of social mediation between the artist, the work of art and the reception of the work is revealed. Likewise, the potential role of the artist and work of art as social mediation can emerge as a stimulus to the creative impulse itself.
The class format will be based on lectures and seminar-style discussions where each student will present a critical summary of at least one of the readings. A portion of the class, when possible, will include a critical examination of the student’s own experience in a particular workshop and may include Butoh dance, clown training for actors or other special workshops or master classes in which students participate.
Instructors: Scott McGehee PhD & Mike Grady MFA
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