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課程名稱

藝術作品中的演化美學
Discovering Evolutionary Aesthetics in the Arts

開課學期

101-2

授課對象

學程歐洲暨歐盟研究學程

授課教師

簡瑞碧

課號

FL3206

課程識別碼

102 39770

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

星期四2,3,4(9:10~12:10)

上課地點

博雅304

備註

開課單位：外文系。學程專業課程：A、B方案
限學士班三年級以上
總人數上限：20人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1012evoaesthetics

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課程概述

This course examines some species of art that reveal artists’ imagination and recreation of nature: poetry, landscape, and gardening. It also introduces some stimulating perspectives such as philosophical, evolutionary, and neuro-aesthetics into our discussions. Students are encouraged on the one hand to discover subtle differences between these types of artwork, and on the other to stage dialogues or to play games with them. In terms of academic training, this course pursues one line of semiotic thinking: how our perceptions of verbal and non-verbal sensory forms converge and diverge in the course of interpreting, scope widening, and generating meanings.

課程目標

Both the instructor and students will learn how they can relate artworks to biological, aesthetic and evolutionary issues at a profound level.

課程要求

Students are required to (1) preview contents for each week; (2) participate in class discussions; (3) submit journals in which they reflect on assigned topics; (4) present case studies of certain artworks they are interested in; (5) submit final papers in which they demonstrate understandings of both textual and methodological issues.

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

另約時間

指定閱讀

參考書目

評量方式
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No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Final presentation and paper	20%
2.	Journals	30%
3.	Case-study presentations	30%
4.	Attendance & Participation	20%

課程進度

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