1) A. Mecacci, Estetica e design, il Mulino 2012;
2) A. Mecacci, L'estetica del pop, Donzelli 2011 (pp. 13-117);
Any text between these:
a) C. Baudelaire, Il pittore della vita moderna, any edition;
b) J. Baudrillard, Il sistema degli oggetti, Bompiani 2003 (pp. 1-109);
c) W. Benjamin, L'opera d'arte nell'epoca della sua riproducibilità tecnica, Donzelli 2012;
d) A. Mecacci, Introduzione a Andy Warhol, Laterza 2008.
Learning Objectives
Achievement of a critical orientation to the problems of aesthetics and design
Prerequisites
No requirement
Teaching Methods
Lecture
Further information
Nessuna
Type of Assessment
Oral
Course program
The course aims, in its first part (October-November), to address the most relevant historical and theoretical issues of the discipline: the relationship between aesthetics and design, the problem of the commodities, the relation between form and function and aesthetic theories on design. The second part (November-December) has a monographic character and has as its theme the aesthetics of pop.