Aesthetics

The course aims to provide students with the methodological tools to investigate the central issues of aesthetics, with particular reference to the phenomenology of perception, the study of non-verbal languages, and theories of art, technology and the media. Through the study of texts by seminal authors in these fields, the course aims to address how the human body, considered the primary medium, underlies the aesthesiological and cognitive processes that govern aesthetic experience, both in relation to works of art and everyday objects. The skills acquired will be transferable to the professional fields of teaching and training, publishing and disseminating texts and images, and coordinating cultural projects in the public and private sectors.

Knowledge and understanding:
Students will acquire a basic knowledge of the main aesthetic theories, becoming familiar with the authors, concepts, methods, and vocabulary of the discipline, which will be understood as both the theory of sensibility and the theory of the image (with particular reference to the artistic field).

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
Students will develop the ability to apply the conceptual framework of aesthetics to situations of sensory and artistic experience, using an appropriate specific vocabulary; they will be able to orient themselves among the main theoretical models and within the corresponding reference bibliography; they will apply the knowledge acquired to the reading and critical analysis of fundamental texts in the history of aesthetics.