400CJ Cluster Course: Aesthetic Issues In The Arts (3)
Specialists in various art forms (e.g., literature, music, painting) will
discuss specific artworks from their own perspective as artists and/or critics.
This gives the student first-hand experience of how questions dealt with in
the philosophy of art arise. Using this common core of examples, philosophical
issues such as relevance of artists' intentions to interpretation and
evaluation, the nature of aesthetic value, the nature and significance of
comedy, and special issues raised by contemporary developments in the arts are
discussed.