3-3-0

This seminar course explores concepts of art and aesthetics that emerge from art, collections and exhibitions alongside those that are rooted in philosophical texts. The art to be examined ranges from the relics and marvels of the Middle Ages to contemporary experiments in artificial life; the texts include such authors as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Foucault and Deleuze.

Prerequisite: Fine Arts History 100, 102, 220 and 221