Lesson plan / SOCIOLOGY OF THE ARTS

Lesson Information

Course Credit 2.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course To develop students' ability to analyze artworks from a broader social, historical, economical and political perspective.
Course Content Relationality between arts, politics and society, artists vs. the artworks, sociological readings of artworks.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Presentation of the course plan
2Historical approaches to the relation between the arts, society and politics
3Society, arts and power: introduction to the Frankfurt School
4Society and the arts between the two world wars: W. Benjamin and T. W. Adorno
5T. W. Adorno: mass culture and culture industry
6H. Marcuse: The society of consumption, consumption culture and their effects on arts
7P. Bourdieu and the sociology of the arts
8Midterm exam
9M. De Certeau: Everyday life practices and the arts
10The discussions of public space and public art
11Introduction to post-structuralist approaches: J. Baudrillard, G. Deleuze, F. Guattari
12The discussions of gender and arts
13The discussions of feminist art and representational politics
14Arts, democracy and accessibility: new approaches in arts and technology

Resources

1-A. Antmen (Ed.). Sanat/Cinsiyet, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2010.
2-A. Darbel, P. Bourdieu. Sanat Sevdası, Metis Yayınları, İstanbul, 2011.
3-B.F. Dellaloğlu. Frankfurt Okulu'nda Sanat ve Toplum, Say Yayınları, İstanbul, 2007.
4-L. J.D. Wacquant, P. Bourdieu. Düşünümsel Bir Antropoloji İçin Cevaplar, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2013.
5-M. De Certeau. Gündelik Hayatın Keşfi I, Dost, Ankara, 2009.
6-M. Horkheimer, T. W. Adorno. Aydınlanmanın Diyalektiği, Kabalcı, İstanbul, 2010.
7-W. Benjamin. Pasajlar, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, İstanbul, 2013.