Aesthetic Education: Media and Cultural Literacy

Topic 01: What Is An Integrated Culture?

• The Content of Culture
• The Integration of Culture
• The Arts in Less Complex Cultures
• The Universality of Art
• What Is Art? Who Is The Artist?
• The Language and the Specialists
• How Changing World-Views Affect the Meaning of Art
• The Derivation of the Modern Ideas of "Art" and "Genius"
• "Pure Art" as an Obstacle to the Integration of Modern Culture
• Conclusions

Topic 02: Aesthetics

• The Meaning of Beauty
• "Beauty" and "Art" are not the same
• How the "Science of Aesthetics" Got That Way
• The Place of Aesthetic Interests in an Integrated Culture
• Beauty as an ideal value
• The "Laws of Nature" and the "Laws of Beauty"
• "Fact" Knowledge and "Value" Knowledge
• "Practical" Values and "Aesthetic" Values
• The "Doing" Attitude and the "Appreciating" Attitude
• Summary

Topic 03: The Horizon of Modern Art

• Aesthetic Values In Everyday Living
• I. Our Method of Procedure
• II. Typical Values in Moment-to-Moment Experience
• III. Value-Judgments in Ordinary Speech
• IV. Liking and Disliking
• V. Standards of Taste
• VI. Ten Sources of Aesthetic Value
• a. Imitation
• b. The perception of analogies
• c. The perception of order
• d. Fitness
• e. Inevitability
• f. Escape
• g. Identification
• h. Nature
• i. Improvement on Nature
• j. Doing
• VII. Aesthetic Values In Summary
• A Modern Conception of Art Development
• Vision: Influence On Aesthetics

Topic 04: Cultural Waves

• Our Position Today
• The A B C of Art Language
• Impersonal Elements
• Effect of Concentric Circles

Topic 05: Elements of Personal Expression

• The Elements Of Composition
• Creation In Nature And Art

Topic 06: Fundamental Approaches To Life

• Two Fundamental Approaches To Life
• Intuition
• Old And New Art
• The Place Of The Conservative And The Pioneer

Topic 07: Contemporaneous Art

• Changing Art Evaluations
• The Conquest Of "Space"

Topic 08: The Machine Age

• Problems Of The Machine Age
• Form And Speed
• Futurism
• Two, Three, And Four Dimensions In Art
• Distortion And Proportion

Topic 09: Fauvism

• Fauvism
• Vincent Van Gogh
• Paul Gauguin
• Modigliani, Matisse, Rousseau
• Brief Discussion Of Light And Color

Topic 10: French Impressionism

• Social, Historical, And Artistic Background
• Japanese Prints, The Camera, And Science Of Color
• Cezanne And Seurat
• Rodin And Monumental Sculpture

Topic 11: European Art

• Religion And Modern Art
• Modern Religious Artists
• Cubism And Other Modern "Isms"

Topic 12: Late Modern Movements

• Pablo Ruiz Picasso
• A Key To Late Modern Movements
• Neo-Objectivism
• The Revolt Against Reality
• The Climax Of The Revolt Against Reality-Surrealism
• Art Patrons-Surrealism In Everyday Life

Topic 13: Art in America

• Historical Background
• Artists Of Revolutionary Days
• America After the revolution
• The American Scene in the early 20th century
• The Influence Of Alfred Stieglitz Synchromists And Others

Topic 14: Mural Art in America

• Psychological Background Of Modern Murals
• Murals In The United States

Topic 15:

• The Mexican Renaissance
• American Sculpture

Topic 16: Functionalism

• The Birth Of Modern Architecture
• Frank Lloyd Wright The International Style