The aim of this course is to invite students to contemplate the nature of artistic experience and its relationship with theory. Drawing upon aesthetics that seek to reveal the experiential dimension of practice, perception and interpretation, the course introduces students to the phenomenological tradition, demonstrating its significance for art and design. In this context, phenomenology should not be viewed simply as a dogmatic theoretical framework, but rather as an approach for uncovering and enhancing creativity from a variety of perspectives – whether personalist, existential, ontological, hermeneutic, ethical, or dialogical. Each seminar will examine specific works, whether visual, musical, or textual.
Lectures
Intentionality and the Making of Art (Edmund Husserl)
I and Thou, or the Interpreter and the Artwork (Martin Buber)
Creative Fidelity in Art Practices (Gabriel Marcel)
Being, Dwelling, and the Artworld (Martin Heidegger)
The Person, the Community, and the Artist (Emmanuel Mounier)
Manifestation, Art and Event (Michel Henry)
Aesthetic Experience (Mikel Dufrenne)
Perception and the Stylisation of the World through Art (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Alterity and Arterity (Emmanuel Lévinas)
Art between Interpretation and Conflict (Paul Ricoeur)
Being Given and Givenness in Artistic Experience (Jean-Luc Marion)
Appeal and Response between painting and the spectator (Jean-Louis Chrétien)