Critical Approaches to Sociology of Art and to Aesthetic Theories

Detailed course schedule:

1. The problematic relationship between art and society
2. The social institution of contemporary art
3. The theory of the avant-garde
4. The relationship between art and technology I (the mechanical age)
5. The social integration of photography
6. The limits of applied art
7. The aesthetic considerations of postmodernism
8. The issue of hipsterism
9. The Institution of Art II: 21st Century
10. Aesthetic judgments and taste
11. The institutionalization of the Greek field of art
12. The relationship between art and technology II (digital age)
13. Summary of research-methodological issues