Reading list FIL FIL 2104 and FIL 4700 (note that the requirements for master-students are slightly different):
Required texts:
Hegel, Aesthetics. Lectures on Fine Art, 2 volumes, trans. Knox, Oxford University Press, 1998
Sherri Irvin, “Sculpture”, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2014
Clement Greenberg, “Sculpture in Our Time”, in The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. 4, Chicago U.P., 1993, pp. 55-60*
Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting”, The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. 4, Chicago U.P., 1993, pp. 85-93
Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” in Art and Culture, Beacon Press 1961, pp. 3-21*
Arthur Danto, “The End of Art”, in The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, Columbia U.P., 1986, pp. 81-116*
Robert Pippin, “What Was Abstract Art? (From the Point of View of Hegel)”, Critical Inquiry, Vol.29 (1), (2002), pp. 1-24
Noel Carroll, “The End of Art?”, History and Theory, Vol. 37 (4), (1998), pp. 17-29
Rosalind Krauss, “Sculpture in the Expanded Field”, October,
Vol. 8 (Spring), (1979), pp. 30-44
Wayne Martin, “The Judgment of Adam. Self-Consciousness and Normative Orientation in Lucas Cranach’s Eden”, in J. Perry (ed.), Art and Phenomenology, Routledge, 2011*
Additional required texts for master students, recommended for everyone else:
Michael Fried, “Art and Objecthood” (excerpts), from Art and Objecthood, Chicago U.P, 1998*
“Oldest System-Programme of German Idealism” (in Bowie)
Sebastian Gardner, “The Romantic-Metaphysical Theory of Art”, European Journal of Philosophy, Vol.10 (3), 2002, pp.275-301
Robert Hopkins, “Sculpture and Space”, in Kieran & Lopes (eds.), Imagination, Philosophy, and the Arts, Routledge, 2003, pp. 272-290.
Recommended texts:
Andrew Bowie, Aesthetics and Subjectivity. Manchester University Press, 2013
Richard Eldridge, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art, Cambridge U.P., 2014
Robert Pippin, “Introduction,” from After the Beautiful, Chicago U.P., 2014
Sherri Irvin, “Installation Art and Performance, A Shared Ontology”, in Mag Uidhir (ed.), Art and Abstract Objects, Oxford U. P., 2013
Arthur Danto, ch. 1, in After the End of Art. Contemporary Art and the Pale of History, Princeton U.P., 1997
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.
The required and recommended books can be bought at Akademika. Texts marked * will be made available in Fronter.