週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
第1週 |
2/21 |
Introduction — Ways of judging, estimating and appreciating natural beauty |
第2週 |
2/28 |
Break |
第3週 |
3/07 |
Notions of the beautiful, the sublime, and the absolute; Video: Nicolas Poussin's Four Seasons |
第4週 |
3/14 |
Notions of the beautiful, the sublime, and the absolute; Comparison and contrast between Frederic Church's and Martin Heade's landscapes |
第5週 |
3/21 |
Notions of propositional feeling, sensory exploitation and aesthetic selection; Video: Australian bowerbirds: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/life/videos/vogelkop-bowerbirds-display-treasures.htm |
第6週 |
3/28 |
Case study stage 1 – How should we react to art and nature? |
第7週 |
4/04 |
Break |
第8週 |
4/11 |
Humboldtian ideas of observing nature and culture |
第9週 |
4/18 |
Humboldtian ideas of poetry about nature; his ideas of landscape paintings in comparison with Carus' in Nine Letters; Overcoming the opposition between emotion (e.g. melancholy) and intellect by drawing on Paul Bril and Frederic Church |
第10週 |
4/25 |
Humboldtian ideas of gardening; Uvedale Price: An Essay on the Picturesque |
第11週 |
5/02 |
Approaches to imagination, emotion and cognition |
第12週 |
5/09 |
Case study stage 2 – How do our sensation, emotion and cognition go together? |
第13週 |
5/16 |
Carus, Carl Gustav. “Letters VI-IV.”Nine Letters on Landscape Painting. Cf. Saussure's speech circuit: http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Documents/S4B/sem08c.html |
第14週 |
5/23 |
Pacht, Otto.“Making Comparisons.”The Practice of Art History |
第15週 |
5/30 |
Instructor at conference |
第16週 |
6/06 |
Pacht, Otto.“Making Comparisons.”The Practice of Art History |
第17週 |
6/13 |
Pacht, Otto.“Making Comparisons.”The Practice of Art History |
第18週 |
6/20 |
Case study stage 3 – How should we relate an artwork to its immediate and global contexts? How can we develop evolutionary aesthetics of artworks?; Final paper presentations |