Required texts:
Plato, Republic, Book 10*
Michel Foucault, “Las Meninas”, The Order of Things, Routledge, 2002, ch. 1*
John Searle, “Las Meninas and the Paradoxes of Pictorial representation”, Critical Inquiry 6 (3):477-488, 1980
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, “Cezanne’s Doubt”, in Sense and Non-sense, Northwestern U.P. 1964. pp. 9-25.*
Anne Eaton, “What’s Wrong with the Female Nude. A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography,” in Art & Pornography: Philosophical Essays, eds. Jerrold Levinson and Hans Maes, Oxford U. P., 2012, pp. 277–308
Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting”, The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. 4, Chicago U.P., 1993, pp. 85-93*
Hegel, Aesthetics. Lectures on Fine Art, 2 volumes, trans. Knox, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 701 – 764*
Herder, Sculpture, University of Chicago Press, 2002, part 1.*
Heidegger, “Art and Space”, Man and World 6 (1):3-8, 1973.*
Sherri Irvin, “Installation Art and Performance, A Shared Ontology”, in Mag Uidhir (ed.), Art and Abstract Objects, Oxford U. P., 2013*
Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” Journal of Philosophy 61 (19):571-584, 1964
Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art”, in Off the Beaten Track, Cambridge U.P. 2002, pp. 1-56.
Recommended texts:
Richard Eldridge, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, Cambridge U.P., 2014
Anne Eaton, “Where Ethics and Aesthetics Meet: Titian’s Rape of Europa”
Sherri Irvin, “Sculpture”, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2014
Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” in Art and Culture, Beacon Press 1961, pp. 3-21*
Clement Greenberg, “Sculpture in Our Time”, in The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. 4, Chicago U.P., 1993, pp. 55-60*
Merleau-Ponty, “Eye and Mind”*
Robert Hopkins, “Sculpture and Space”, in Kieran & Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, Routledge, 2003, pp. 272-290.*
Meyer Schapiro, “The Still Life as a Personal Object”*
Various entries from Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd ed., Oxford U.P., 2014
All shorter texts are easily available online unless marked *. You can find them in oria and follow the link to electronic resources available from the university library.
Required and recommended books can be bought at Akademika. Texts marked * will be made available in Fronter.