Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture 

(20116)

Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 1st, 2nd, etc..
Term:1st, 2nd, 3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication:
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: Tamara Djermanovic

1. Presentation of the subject

Aesthetic Russian tradition
Aesthetic tradition in Eastern Europe. From Byzantium to Russia. Icon philosophy. Tolstoi and the moral concern.
Kandinsky and Malevich and the revolution in painting.
Tarkovski: art as sacrifice and salvation. 

2. Competences to be attained

General competences	Specific competences
Approaching artistic creativity from the aesthetic Russian tradition	Students will acquire the fundamental ideas about Russian Icon Philosophy as well as the authors' thought and works, and they will be able to express them

3. Contents

Unit 1. Introduction. Byzantine roots in Aesthetic Russian tradition. Art as knowledge. ICONS.

Unit 2. TOLSTÓI. Art and literature as a way to look for Truth.
The ethical concern and pessimism.

Unit 3. KANDINSKY. Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

Unit 4. MALEVICH. Art as constructing a word without objects.

Unit 5. TARKOVSKI. Cinema and its close rapport with other artistic forms.
The transfiguring power of art. 

  

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4. Assessment

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5. Bibliography and teaching resources

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5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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