Aesthetics and Art Theory

Overview

Reasons to choose Kingston University

• Unlike most courses on art theory, this Aesthetics and Art Theory course at Kingston University grounds its problems and concepts in the appropriate philosophical context, notably in the work of Kant and of Kant's Romantic critics, and of Benjamin, Adorno and more recent thinkers.

• The course will prepare you for careers in the arts, education and public policy, and for doctoral research in art, art theory, and art history, as well for interdisciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences.

• You'll be based at the UK's leading Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, which organises conferences, workshops and regular research seminars.

What you will study

You'll study canonical authors including Adorno, Aristotle, Benjamin, Deleuze, Derrida, de Duve, Duchamp, Greenberg, Heidegger, Kant, Krauss, Rancière, and Schlegel, and gain a clear overview of the main philosophical approaches to modern and contemporary art.

The course will distinguish between ‘aesthetic', ‘Romantic' ‘Modernist' and ‘Contemporary' (global) problematics, and will offer a distinctive grounding in ongoing debates over the reception of contemporary art.