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Music and ArtMarilou Polymeropoulou

[email protected]

http://musicandartoxford.wordpress.com/

Department for Continuing Education

Week 1

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

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Course material

• Audiovisual presentations

• Scores, pictures, audio and video recordings

• Books and articles (library, print, and online)

• Course blog

• Field trip

• Course work

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Week 1 lecture structure

Part 1: Introduction to terminology: art and aesthetics

Part 2: course overview

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“To see something as art requires something the eye cannot decry - an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of the history of art: an artworld”

A. Danto (in Frith 2002:249)

“To grasp the meaning of music is to hear something not simply present to the ear. It is to understand a musical culture, to have a scheme of interpretation”

S. Frith (ibid)

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PlatoΠλάτων

• 424/423 - 348/347 BC

• Founder of the Academy of Athens

• Philosophy, logic, ethics, rhetoric, mathematics, art, politics

• Western philosophy

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Plato: on art

• The Republic (Πολιτεία, Politeia, literal translation “society”)

• Imitation and representation of reality

• Therapeutic, healing for human soul

• World of Ideas vs. world of tangible objects

• Art as craft, Techne (Τέχνη)

• Bad art undermining morality vs correct, good art shaping character

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Aristotle, Ἀριστοτέλης

• 384 - 322 BC

• Student of Plato

• Founder of Lyceum

• Physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, politics, ethics

• Influenced Western philosophy

• Reason, logic, aesthetics

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Aristotle on art

• Separate art from politics

• Channelling human creativity: 1) gnosis (theory, knowledge), 2) praxis (practice), 3) poiesis (creating)

• Categories of Art: 1)imitation of visual representations (colours and designs) 2) imitation of human behaviour (poetry, lyrics, dancing)

• Pleasure and art

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Raphael Scuola di Atene (1510-11) (detail)

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Organon (Tool, Organum)

• Ontology - On + Logos

• The Categories (predicaments)

• Influence on aesthetics and evaluation theories

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The Categories• 1. Substance (Human)

• 2. Quantity (5 ft. 6 in. tall)

• 3. Quality (white)

• 4. Relation (shorter than the board)

• 5. Place (in a classroom)

• 6. Time (now)

• 7. Posture (standing)

• 8. Possession - Habitus (clothed, wearing black trousers)

• 9. Action (breathing, teaching)

• 10. Passivity (being watched, listened to)Wednesday, 18 January 2012

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• Ancient aesthetics: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, Mayan

• Islamic aesthetics: Islamic culture. Arabesque, mosaic, islamic calligraphy and architecture

• Indian aesthetics: Spiritual or philosophical states in the audience. Architecture, sculpture, painting, literature, music and dancing

• Chinese aesthetics: Confucius and the role of arts and humanities

• African aesthetics: oral and written traditions

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Western Aesthetics

• First used by Alexander Baumgarten Aesthetica (1750-1758): the science which examines beautiful in nature and art

• Immanuel Kant, Taste (Geschmack) in Critique of Judgment (1790)

• Hegel (1823-27): Taught Aesthetics as a secondary spiritual reality

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Hegel and Kant

• To what extent art is the purpose or the vessel of reality?

• How close to reality is art?

• Is art for everybody?

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Leo Tolstoy “What is art?” (1897)

• Essay in which he argues against aesthetic theories which define art in terms of good, truth and beauty

• Art at his time was corrupt and decadent. Artists had been misled

• Art requires capacity to unite people via communication

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Week 117/1/12

• Course overview

• Introduction to terms art and aesthetics

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Week 224/1/12

The work of art pt.1

• On listening: the art of music and sound

• What is music?

• Music aesthetics

• The evaluation and appreciation of music

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Week 331/1/12

The work of art pt. 2

• Visual and hybrid forms of art

• Jean Cocteau and Les Six

• Personal reflections

• Examples: Criticism, evaluation, aesthetics

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Week 47/2/12

• Impressionism

• Debussy’s “The Sea” (1905): listening, reading, representing

• Monet’s “Impression, sunrise” (1872): landscape and realism

• Reflections on Expressionism

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Week 514/2/12

• Avant-Garde traditions

• The art concept in the 20th century

• Examples

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Week 621/2/12

• Jazz, Fox-Trot and Pop

• Dancing and performing arts

• Popular culture and the Frankfurt school

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Week 728/2/12

• Ethnographic art and representation

• Defining cultural aesthetics

• The Rules of Art (Bourdieu)

• Examples

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Week 86/3/12

• Collections

• Hard Rock Cafe: restaurant and museum?

• The art of collecting

• Top 5 lists and Desert Island Discs

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Week 913/3/12

• Field work

• Visiting Oxonian museums (Pitt-Rivers/The Ashmolean).

• Museum exercise

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Week 1020/3/12

• Workshop: re-examining art and music

• Discussion of coursework

• Summary of the course

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Exercises

• Aristotle’s 10 Categories for Cueva de las manos (Argentina 14,000-9,000 BC)

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M. Babbitt’s article

• Who cares if you listen? (1958)

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Personal aesthetics

• Choose artwork

• Describe its ontology (Aristotle’s 10 categories)

• Why is it/is it not important for you? Justify according to influence, communication (Tolstoi), culture, society etc

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