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FACULTY OF FINE ARTS / GİT221 - VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Code: GİT221 Course Title: AESTHETICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF ART Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 2 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer SELÇUK ULUTAŞ (selcukulutas@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
General information about aesthetic concepts and theories of art.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Examine the formation stages of art and artists from antiquity to today from a philosophical point of view PO-1 Students are technically and theoretically dominant in the historical development of Visual Communication Design.
PO-3 Students will be able to use terminology, problem solving skills, technical and method knowledge to evaluate art and design on a common basis.
PO-11 Students will have the ability to comprehend the visual language and differences of art and design and aesthetic sensitivity and to reflect on their designs.
Examination
LO-2 To be able to interpret contemporary art events and contemporary art movements PO-1 Students are technically and theoretically dominant in the historical development of Visual Communication Design.
PO-3 Students will be able to use terminology, problem solving skills, technical and method knowledge to evaluate art and design on a common basis.
PO-11 Students will have the ability to comprehend the visual language and differences of art and design and aesthetic sensitivity and to reflect on their designs.
Examination
LO-3 Will be able to create philosophical infrastructure for the workshop and its own works. PO-1 Students are technically and theoretically dominant in the historical development of Visual Communication Design.
PO-3 Students will be able to use terminology, problem solving skills, technical and method knowledge to evaluate art and design on a common basis.
PO-11 Students will have the ability to comprehend the visual language and differences of art and design and aesthetic sensitivity and to reflect on their designs.
PO-13 Describes how to visual communication of meaning and signification.
PO-26 Interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The subject and method of aesthetics, the foundation of aesthetics, subjective and objective aesthetics, aesthetic judgment analysis, the concept of beautiful philosophical perspectives, the concept of art ontology, the layers of existence, the conditions of artistic creation, the types of art within the scope of art science, the correct determination of the concept of evaluating the concept of art, art methods of criticizing their works and philosophical criticism. Plato's reflection theory, Aristotle's concepts of matter and form, mimesis, Islam, Christian and Renaissance aesthetics, Baumgarten, Kant, Hegel, Enlightenment thinkers and philosophical movements and narrative, formalism and art works in the period will be examined.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Examining the relationship between emotion and aesthetics. Explanation of the concepts of mode, emotion, feeling, affect and affection. Lecture, Question and Answer
2 Examining the relationship between modern aesthetics and knowledge. Lecture, Question and Answer
3 Examining the relationship between the concepts of reality and truth in the philosophy of aesthetics. Lecture, Question and Answer
4 Explaining the relationship between aesthetic pleasure and memory. Lecture, Question and Answer
5 Explaining the concept of aesthetic objectivation. Examination of the relationship between open and closed texts and match-knowledge in the artistic plane. Lecture, Question and Answer
6 Subject To Aesthetic Analysis, Subjektivist-Psychological Aesthetics Lecture, Question and Answer
7 Ontology of Art, the layers being works of art, the art of modern theories of ontology, Hartmann's ontology theory, Lecture, Question and Answer
8 mid-term exam
9 Concept of beauty according to ages Metaphysical Beauty in Nature, Fine, Fine Arts Ancient times to the present examination of aesthetic values​​. Lecture, Question and Answer, Demonstration,
10 As a Value and Human Values​​, which is only human-specific work of art. Lecture, Question and Answer
11 The artist and his/her work, what is genius? The relationship between society and culture-art from the first age to the present, Lecture, Question and Answer
12 Artistic Works and the Problem of Assessment in Art Review Lecture, Question and Answer
13 Review a work of art, aesthetic criticism steps Lecture, Question and Answer, Demonstration,
14 Review a work of art, aesthetic criticism Lecture, Question and Answer, Demonstration,
15 West East, examples of Turkish and Islamic Art, sculpture, architecture, miniature, painting masterpieces Lecture, Question and Answer, Demonstration,
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 TUNALI, İ., Estetik, Remzi, 1989, İstanbul.
2 TUNALI, İ., Felsefenin Işığında Modern Resim, Remzi, 2008, İstanbul.
3 FERNIE, E.(Ed.), Art History and Its Methods, Phaidon, 2001, London.
4 TUNALI, İ., Grek Estetiği, Remzi, 2004, İstanbul.
5 BLOCH, E., LUKACS, G., BRECHT, B., BENJAMİN, W., ADORNO, T., Estetik ve Politika, (Çev. Ünsal Oskay), Alkım, 2004, İstanbul.
6 BOYDAŞ, Nihat, Sanat Eleştirisine Giriş, Gündüz Eğt ve Yayıncılık: Ankara: 2004:
7 Aristoteles, Poetika,Antik Yunan Felsefesi (Çev.Tunalı, İsmail.) , Remzi Kitabeviİstanbul 2004
8 NAUERT, Charles G. Avrupada Hümanizma ve Rönesans Kültürü, (Çev: Bahar Tırnakçı) Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, 2011
9 AVŞAR, Timuçin Felsefeden Estetiğe, Hayal yayınları, Ankara, 2008
10 Ulutaş, Selçuk, Sinema Estetiği: Gerçeklik ve Hakikat, İstanbul: Hayalperest Yayın Evi.
11 ALTUĞ,Taylan,Kant Estetiği,İstanbul,Payel Yayınları, 2007.
12 CÖMERT, Bedrettin Croce'nin Estetiği , De Ki Basımevi 2006
Required Course instruments and materials
Lectures, related images (slides, presentations, photographs, printed journals and books)

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 14 42
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 6 12
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 6 18
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 130