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Day 52 (1/25): Art & Judgement


Aims & Objectives
  • make connections between a critical approach to the construction of knowledge, the academic disciplines and the wider world
  • develop an awareness of how individuals and communities construct knowledge and how this is critically examined
  • examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge
Key Questions
  • What is the role of judgement in art?
  • How do we justify our opinions about art?
  • What makes art good?

Start with these clips.  The first comes from Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential, based on the short comic by Daniel Clowes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcg1K_d5MkQ


The second is from Zwigoff's earlier film, Ghost World (2001), based on the Clowes' comic series turned graphic novel.




Now return to your "Art Starter" activity and look at the list of works of art that you generated.  For each work (or for all of them together), list some qualities (of the work, its production, its history?) that make the art worthy of being called art.

So the question is maybe not "Is it Art?" but "Is it Good?" and if so, "How can we claim to know such a thing?"

  • "The Art Critic" Activity

By Friday, 1/21

Read and annotate the excerpt from Bourdieu's "Sociological Theory of Art Perception" Come to class having written down:
  • 3-4 key ideas or observations drawn from the text.
  • 2-3 significant (knowledge) questions that the text seems to raise.

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