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| Unit | CONSERVATOIRE |
| THEATRE PR. (OYUNCULUK) | |
| Code | KONS401 |
| Name | Aesthetics and Art Theories |
| Term | 2026-2027 Academic Year |
| Semester | 7. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 2-0 (T-A) (32 Week) |
| ECTS | 2 ECTS |
| National Credit | 2 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Label | GC General Culture Courses C Compulsory |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Öğretmen CUMALİ ASLANTÜRK |
| Course Instructor |
The current term course schedule has not been prepared yet.
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Course Goal / Objective
The aim of this course is to enable students to understand the basic concepts of aesthetics and art theories and to evaluate works of art not only from technical or formal perspectives, but also within intellectual and theoretical contexts. The course aims to develop students’ critical thinking skills regarding concepts such as art, beauty, taste, representation, expression, and interpretation. It also seeks to help students relate aesthetic thought to their own artistic practices, performance processes, and interpretive approaches.
Course Content
This course examines the fundamental concepts of aesthetic thought, the nature of art, and the meaning of the artwork within a historical and theoretical framework. Concepts such as beauty, art, taste, the sublime, representation, form, content, expression, imitation, creativity, and interpretation are discussed in their philosophical and artistic contexts. The development of aesthetic thought from Antiquity to the present is evaluated through thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Croce, Benjamin, Adorno, and contemporary theorists of art. The course also explores the relationship between art and its social, cultural, and historical conditions. Through examples from various artistic disciplines, students analyze aesthetic judgment, art criticism, and the function of art.
Course Precondition
None
Resources
Bozkurt, N. (2014). Sanat ve Estetik Kuramları. Sentez Yayıncılık. Tunalı, İ. (2012). Estetik. Remzi Kitabevi. Cevizci, A. (2019). Felsefeye Giriş. Say Yayınları. Aristotle. (2020). Poetics. Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları. Kant, I. (2020). Critique of the Power of Judgment. Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları. Hegel, G. W. F. (2015). Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art. Payel Yayınları. Eco, U. (2006). History of Beauty. Doğan Kitap. Shiner, L. (2018). The Invention of Art: A Cultural History. Ayrıntı Yayınları.
Notes
Benjamin, W. (2015). The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Zeplin Kitap. Adorno, T. W. (2012). Aesthetic Theory. Metis Yayınları. Nietzsche, F. (2011). The Birth of Tragedy. Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları. Croce, B. (1983). Aesthetic. Remzi Kitabevi. Read, H. (2018). The Meaning of Art. Hayalperest Yayınevi. Berger, J. (2019). Ways of Seeing. Metis Yayınları. Gombrich, E. H. (2015). The Story of Art. Remzi Kitabevi. Carroll, N. (1999). Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge. Davies, S. (2015). The Philosophy of Art. Wiley Blackwell. Gaut, B., & Lopes, D. M. (Eds.). (2013). The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. Routledge.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Explains the concept of aesthetics within its historical, philosophical, and artistic contexts. |
| LO02 | Defines and compares key aesthetic concepts such as beauty, art, taste, creativity, representation, expression, and the sublime. |
| LO03 | Evaluates major theories of art from Antiquity to the present within their historical development. |
| LO04 | Platon, Aristoteles, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Croce, Adorno ve Benjamin gibi düşünürlerin sanat ve estetik anlayışlarını temel yönleriyle açıklar. |
| LO05 | Interprets the influence of different theories of art on music, theatre, opera, dance, and visual arts. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Students comprehensively search for the national and international Theatre - Acting literature, techniques and methods, synthesize the knowledge they acquired considering the requirements of the age and gain a critical point of view. | 5 |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | The Art of Acting is supported with methods, theories, history, the techniques of using voice and body, behavioral psychology, and aesthetics and art theories. He has the knowledge to comprehend his art and transfer it to the future along with his past. | 5 |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | This program provides with the ways of finding the necessary documents, tools, resources, and the archive related to the art of acting. | |
| PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | By acquiring the basic techniques and professional habits of the art of acting, having sufficient knowledge in terms of stage technology, comprehends how to express the artistic expression images of the play. | |
| PLO05 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Gains the ability to present information about the field of Theatre-Acting Art to different audiences of the society. | |
| PLO06 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Students gain awareness of being an artist who is aware of the responsibility to themselves, their own country and to the humanity. | |
| PLO07 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Students will have the ability to search, discover, create alternative solutions, reach information, think critically and engage in productive discussions for personal and professional growth. | |
| PLO08 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Taking the art of Theatre-Acting into consideration, students comprehend the improvement and transformation period of the art from past to the future, and adapt it according to the requirements of the age. | 5 |
| PLO09 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | By developing his coordination skills, he gains the ability to use his own body as an instrument that has recognized and analyzed his world of emotions and thoughts and has a natural mechanism on the stage. | |
| PLO10 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | In addition to acting techniques, he knows and applies the right ways of using the body on stage with movement, dance, body plastic and fencing disciplines. | |
| PLO11 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | This programme teaches the ways of using voice correctly on stage supporting this with the voice and speech techniques, singing, solfege and ear training. | |
| PLO12 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Gains the ability to interpret universal values and reflect imaginatively with the knowledge gained in his field. | |
| PLO13 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Performs his character taking part in a full range of play (including costumes, makeup, decor, music, lighting, effects,) prepared closest to the professional discipline and stage conditions. | |
| PLO14 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | He gains the awareness of having artistic and professional ethics and discipline along with his professional acting qualifications and applies them in rehearsal, representation and all works on stage and set. | 4 |
| PLO15 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | As an artist, students improve themselves continually, and combine the knowledge and skills appropriate for the rules of professional ethics with the other fields of art and make correlations between them. | |
| PLO16 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | In addition to his professional development, he constantly improves himself in scientific, social, cultural and sports fields for his personal development. | |
| PLO17 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Students gain communication and social competence skills as a natural part of the art of theater - acting. | |
| PLO18 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | With the help of techniques and methods of acting, this programme teaches the ways of expressing the emotions and thoughts of the character to play on stage. | |
| PLO19 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Considering the art of Theatre-Acting, students learn a social and aesthetic point of view and can apply this on performing arts, radio, television and cinema. | 5 |
| PLO20 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | It shows and provides the ways to have the competence to use Turkish correctly, beautifully and effectively as an example for the society. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to Aesthetics: Art, Beauty, and Taste | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 2 | Fundamental Questions of Aesthetics: What is Art? What is Beauty? | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Soru-Cevap, Anlatım, Alıştırma ve Uygulama |
| 3 | Art and the Concept of Beauty in Ancient Greece | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 4 | Plato: Art, Imitation, and Ideal Beauty | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 5 | Aristotle: Mimesis, Tragedy, and Catharsis | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 6 | Medieval Aesthetics: Art, Faith, and Symbolism | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 7 | Renaissance Art: Humanism, Nature, and Artistic Representation | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 8 | Classical Conceptions of Art: Order, Measure, and Harmony | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 9 | Aesthetic Thought in the Age of Enlightenment | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 10 | Kantian Aesthetics: Judgment of Taste and the Sublime | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 11 | Hegel: Art, Spirit, and the Historical Development of Art | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 12 | Romanticism: Emotion, Creativity, and Genius in Art | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 13 | Nietzsche: Art, Tragedy, and the Apollonian-Dionysian Duality | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 14 | Representation, Expression, and Meaning in Art | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 15 | The Relationship between the Work of Art, the Artist, and the Audience | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 16 | General Review and Discussion before the Midterm Examination | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma, Soru-Cevap |
| 17 | Midterm Examination | Individual research | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav, Ödev |
| 18 | The Emergence of Modern Art and the Break from Traditional Aesthetics | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 19 | Formalism and the Concept of Form in Art | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 20 | Realism, Naturalism, and the Social Function of Art | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 21 | Marxist Aesthetics and the Ideological Dimension of Art | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 22 | The Frankfurt School: Adorno, Benjamin, and Art Criticism | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 23 | Mechanical Reproduction of Art, Mass Culture, and Popular Culture | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 24 | Introduction to Contemporary Theories of Art | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 25 | Postmodern Art: Pluralism, Parody, and Intertextuality | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 26 | Body, Performance, and Stage Aesthetics | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 27 | Aesthetics of Music: Sound, Meaning, and Expression | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 28 | Aesthetic Approaches in Opera, Theatre, and Performing Arts | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 29 | Aesthetic Experience in Dance and Body-Based Arts | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 30 | Art, Ethics, and Social Responsibility | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 31 | Current Debates in Art and General Review | Individual research | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 32 | Final Examination | Individual research | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav, Ödev |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 30 | 2 | 60 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 62 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 2,48 | ||
| ECTS | 2 ECTS | ||