Sociology of Fine Arts and Music II

Course content

Social, cultural and ideological dimensions of art from earliest beginnings. Work-character of the “work of art.” Art as gateway to truth. Commodification of artworks. Art now: just another sphere of commodity and information flow or a privileged field of emancipatory forces? Is art dead, given today’s social, economic and technological matrix? Artwork as simulacrum and dissimulation. Subjectivity as the constituent dimension of aesthetic experience in techno-scientific age.