SOC437 SOCIOLOGY OF FINE ARTS AND MUSIC I
| Course Code: |
2320437 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Sociology |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. HASAN ÜNAL NALBANTOÐLU |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Social, cultural and ideological dimensions of art from earliest beginnings. Work-character of the “work of art.” Art as gateway to truth. Commodification of artworks. Art now: just another sphere of commodity and information flow or a privileged field of emancipatory forces? Is art dead, given today’s social, economic and technological matrix? Artwork as simulacrum and dissimulation. Subjectivity as the constituent dimension of aesthetic experience in techno-scientific age.
